2 soldiers killed in suicide attack in Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey — Kurdish rebels detonated an explosives-laden agricultural vehicle Sunday at a military police station in eastern Turkey, killing two soldiers and wounding 31 others, authorities said, amid a sharp escalation of violence between the government forces and the autonomy-seeking insurgents.

Militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, used two tons of explosives to attack the station on a highway near the town of Dogubayazit in Agri province, close to Turkey’s border with Iran, causing extensive damage to the building, the regional governor’s office said in a statement. The military said four of the injured soldiers were in serious condition.