Four Turkish police killed by roadside bomb in southeast: reports

Ankara: Four Turkish police officers were killed on Monday in a roadside bomb attack in the southeast blamed on Kurdish militants, the local media reported.

The attack took place in the Silopi district of Sirnak province bordering Iraq and Syria, the private Dogan news agency reported. It came after Turkey's megacity Istanbul was rocked by twin attacks, one on a police station and the other on US consulate.