BERLIN A 26-year-old Kurd has died after being wounded by Israeli security guards at Israel's consulate in Berlin when Kurdish protestors stormed the building, bringing the death toll to four, Berlin police announced Saturday. The man, part of a group that tried to burst into the Israeli consulate on February 17, died of a gunshot wound, police said in a statement.

Three other Kurds, two men and a woman, were shot dead by security guards when some 30 Kurdish demonstrators attempted to force their way into the consulate during protests against the arrest of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan. The Israeli security guards involved in the shooting were exonerated by an inquiry and have since left Germany. Meanwhile, witnesses said on Saturday the bodies of three supporters of detained Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan, who were shot by Israeli guards in Berlin, were buried in Turkey overnight Family members attended the burial of 18-year-old woman Sema Alp in the early hours of Saturday in the mountain village of Baglica near the city of Siirt. Local government officials had said they wanted to avoid crowds attending the event.

Mehmet Acar, 24, was buried around midnight as his family looked on in Birecik, in Urfa province, witnesses said. Journalists were prevented from attending the burial by security forces, but were allowed to visit the grave in the morning. The body of the third person, Mustafa Kurt, 28, was also buried around midnight in Bozova, Urfa province. Turkish soldiers killed 17 Kurdish rebels in clashes in the rugged mountains of southeastern Turkey, the semiofficial Anatolia news agency reported Saturday. The fighting was the bloodiest reported since the capture of Abdullah Ocalan earlier this month.

Turkish soldiers killed 16 rebels in one battle in the southeastern province of Sirnak and another guerrilla in a separate clash, the agency said.