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Source: Reuters

Turk troops repulse rebel attack -security officials
25 Oct 2007 06:41:14 GMT

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Turkish forces
deploying tanks and artillery repulsed an attack by up to
40 Kurdish militants on a military post near the Iraqi
border, security officials said on Thursday.

The attack late on Wednesday targeted Turkish gendarmes,
or paramilitary police, in the mountainous Hakkari province,
the officials said.

After heavy clashes, the guerrillas withdrew back into
northern Iraq, taking with them an unknown number of dead
and wounded, the officials said.

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