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Fighting in Turkey's Kurdish southeast kills 20 militants, two soldiers

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Fighting in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast has killed 20 militants and two soldiers, security sources said on Monday.

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels in the mountainous Daglica area of Hakkari province, which borders Iraq, detonated explosives on a road as a military vehicle passed, killing two soldiers and wounding a third, the sources said.

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