Five Turkish police officers and two civilians were killed on Monday in a car bombing outside the southeastern city of Diyarbakir blamed on Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels, the government said.
The blast hit a police traffic control building on a highway leading southeast from Diyarbakir to the city of Batman, killing the seven, a Turkish official said, confirming media reports and asking not to be named.
The local governor's office earlier said in a statement that 25 people were wounded including five police officers. One of those killed was a child.
A previous toll had said six people were killed.
An AFP photographer at the scene said the bombing had turned the three-storey police building into tangled rubble with rescue workers using diggers to search the debris for corpses.
Locals were also inspecting the massive trench left in the ground by the bomb.
The latest bombing came after at least eight people, mostly civilians, were killed on Wednesday in two separate attacks blamed on PKK militants in Turkey's southeast.
It also came on the day seen as marking the 32nd anniversary of the launch of the PKK's armed rebellion by radical Kurdish nationalist Marxists led by their now-jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan.
Hundreds of members of the Turkish security forces have been killed by the PKK in attacks since the collapse of a two-year ceasefire in July last year.
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