Fresh bombing in Turkey's Diyarbakir wounds two conscripts

Two Turkish conscripts have been injured by a bomb which exploded in the majority Kurdish city of Diyarbakir.

Large numbers of military reinforcements on Monday were sent to the scene in the south of the city of over a million people, after a mine hit an armoured car carrying military personnel.

The attack is the latest in a recent slew of bombings, most of which have hit the south-east of Turkey.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has claimed responsibility for many of the attacks.

There has as yet been no claim of responsibility for Monday’s bombing.

On Sunday a suicide bombing at a military headquarters in eastern Turkey killed two soldiers, while a land mine targeting a military convoy killed a third.

Tensions in Turkey have escalated since late July, when a deadly bombing hit a charity youth meeting attended mainly by Kurdish activists in the Turkish border town of Suruc.

The PKK has stepped up its attacks, blaming the government in Ankara for failing to curb the threat from Islamic State, thought to be responsible for the Suruc blast.

In response, the Turkish government has launched airstrikes against PKK positions, with the state news agency claiming on Saturday that 260 PKK fighters were killed in the first week of the raids.