One police officer was killed and two others wounded in attacks staged by members of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey on Sunday, private Dogan news agency reported.

A group of PKK militants attacked the building of Sirnak provincial government, a police department and a police checkpoint with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) in downtown of the province of Sirnak, leaving three police officers wounded.

One wounded police officer died in Sirnak State Hospital.

A large-scale operation was launched to capture the PKK members who escaped from the spot.

Meanwhile, one child was seriously wounded in a bomb explosion near a police checkpoint in the southeastern province of Hakkari.

The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, took up arms in 1984 in an attempt to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey.