Two Turkish soldiers killed in terrorist attack

The incident occurred on Sunday in the district of Lice near the city of Diyarbakir, they said, adding that the army had deployed helicopters to help flush out the attackers.

The blast brought to 14 the total number of people killed in violence in southeastern Turkey over the past week, amid reports that the terrorists are infiltrating the region from their northern Iraq stronghold.

The outlawed PKK has an estimated 5,000 militants holed up in northern Iraq. The U.S.-led occupation authority has vowed to hunt them down