A Turkish soldier who was shot by masked men has died of his wounds, the army said on Thursday, the latest killing of a member of the security forces in the Kurdish-majority southeast of the country.

Non-commissioned officer Nejdet Aydogdu was shopping with his wife in Turkey's biggest Kurdish-populated city of Diyarbakir Wednesday afternoon when he was fired at by two masked gunmen at close range.

Turkish officials said Friday a remote-control bomb explosion has killed one person and injured 25 others in southeast Turkey, Anatolia news agency reported, citing authorities.

A hand-made bomb, comprising five kilograms of TNT explosives, was set of in the center of the city of Hakkari on Thursday afternoon, as a police car was passing by, police told state-run Anatolia.