PKK fighters drove an old tractor filled with explosived into the base and detonated it, wounding additional 31 soldiers, 4 of whom are in serious conditions.[172] 2 August - 1 soldier was killed and 8 soldiers wounded as their armed vehicle ran over a PKK landmine in the town of Midyat.[173] 3 August - The PKK staged two different attacks in Turkeys eastern Bitlis Province: on the early hours of August 3, PKK fighters detonated a landmine on the Bitlis-Diyarbakir highway as two military vehicles passed by; some hours earlier, kurdish fighters opened fire on a military hospital in Bitlis.