DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Aug 28 (AFP) - Two people were seriously injured in southeastern Turkey on Saturday when a truck ran into a mine, allegedly planted by Kurdish rebels, local officials said.
The incident occurred near the town of Pervari in the province of Siirt just a day after two people were killed and five injured when their van hit a mine in the same region.
The two injured were the truck's driver and another man who was accompanying him, the sources said.
The vehicle was carrying water to so-called village guards whom the government recruits in its struggle against militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the region.
The PKK, now known as KONGRA-GEL, ended a five-year unilateral ceasefire with Ankara on June 1.
Since then the group has been blamed for a series of deadly attacks in the southeast as well as the bombing of two hotels in Istanbul earlier this month, which killed two people and left 11 others, mostly foreign tourists, injured.
The rebels have threatened more attacks across the country.
Some 37,000 people have been killed since the rebels took up arms for self-rule in mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey in 1984.