At least two Turkish soldiers have been killed and 24 others wounded when militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a military police station in Turkey’s eastern province of Agri.

PKK members used two tons of explosives to attack the station on a highway near the town of Dogubayazit, located 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) east of the capital, Ankara, on Sunday, the regional governor’s office said in a statement.

The wounded soldiers were transported to a nearby hospital to receive medical treatment; however, there was no word on their conditions.

The PKK has stepped up its attacks against Turkish security forces in the past days after Turkey’s military began to bomb the group’s positions in northern Iraq.

Earlier on Sunday, a Turkish soldier was killed and four others wounded when a mine explosion hit their convoy on a road in the Midyat district of the Mardin province in southeastern Turkey, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The early morning attack was also blamed on the PKK.

The development came a day after another land mine explosion killed a Turkish lieutenant and injured two soldiers on the Erzurum-Kars highway. The Saturday attack was also believed to have been carried out by PKK members.

On July 31, two Turkish police were killed in a gun attack on a police headquarters in Turkey’s southern region of Adana.

PKK gunmen fired on police headquarters in the city of Pozanti, situated 322 kilometers (200 miles) east of Ankara, triggering an exchange of gunfire that left two police as well as two militants dead.

Anadolu reported on Saturday that the country’s week-long aerial bombardment against PKK positions in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq has killed around 260 militants and injured between 380 and 400 others.

The report further noted that Nurettin Demirtas, the brother of the co-leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtas, was among the injured PKK members.

Turkey recently launched airstrikes against purported ISIL targets in Syria as well as PKK positions in Iraq, after a deadly bomb attack attributed to ISIL Takfiris left 32 people dead in the southwestern Turkish town of Suruc, across the border from the northern Syrian town of Kobani.

A shaky ceasefire that had stood since 2013 was declared as null by PKK following the Turkish airstrikes against the group, narrowing chances of the two sides reaching a deal in the near future.

The PKK had been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region inside Turkey since the 1980s. The conflict has left tens of thousands of people dead.