(Xinhua) -- Suspected Kurdish rebels has set off a bomb and derailed a freight train in the eastern Turkish province of Mus, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday.

No casualties were reported, said Anatolia.

The remote-controlled bomb, planted on the railway, was detonated on Saturday night when the train was traveling between Kale and Kurt stations in the province of Mus, some officials were quoted as saying.

It derailed 12 carriages of the train, eight of them were badly damaged, they said, adding a team from eastern province of Elazig was sent to rush to the scene to repair the tracks.

The Kurdish Workers' Party, or PKK which has been listed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and the United States, has launched an armed campaign for an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking decades of strife that has claimed more than 30,000 lives.