Turkey: Bomb Blast kills 38
ISTANBUL: 38 people were killed and 166 wounded in Istanbul on Saturday when twin bombings struck the heart of the city close to the stadium of football giants Besiktas after a major game, Turkish interior minister said.
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A car bomb detonated outside the Vodafone Arena football stadium on the shores of the Bosphorus after the Super Lig match between Besiktas and Bursaspor while less than a minute later a suicide attacker struck a nearby park, officials said.
The authorities did not say who was behind the blasts, the
latest in a year that has seen Istanbul and other Turkish cities rocked by a
string of attacks blamed on Islamic State jihadists and Kurdish militants.
Twenty-seven of those killed were police and two were
civilians, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters in Istanbul,
adding that 10 suspects had already been detained over the bombing.
Turkey's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the death
toll from twin blasts near an Istanbul stadium had risen to 38.
He said the figure included 30 police officers, seven
civilians and one more person whose identity had yet to be determined.
The minister also put the number of wounded at 155 and said
a total of 13 suspects had been detained in connection with the attack Saturday
night.
Soylu says 136 people are still hospitalized from the
attack, 14 of them in intensive care and five undergoing surgery.
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