( People's Daily ) - Four people were wounded early Monday as an explosion occurred on railway tracks in eastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
The explosives planted by the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party ( PKK) exploded while a freight train was passing near Elazig province, said the report, adding the wounded were taken to local hospital of Firat University for treatment.
The PKK has increased attacks on Turkish troops in southeastern Turkey in recent months, which led to rising Turkish demands for an incursion into northern Iraq to crush the rebels based there.
The group, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, launched an armed campaign for an ethnic homeland in the mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking decades of strife that has claimed more than 30, 000 lives.