Sunday, August 21, 2016

Suicide Bomber Struck Wedding In Turkey, Kills atleast 8

No fewer than Eight people were killed and 60 reportedly wounded on Saturday in an attack on a wedding party in southern Turkey that a deputy prime minister said appeared to have been carried out by a suicide bomber.


Ambulances raced to the scene of the attack in the Sahinbey district of the city of Gaziantep and police sealed off the area.

The city's governor's office said 22 people had been killed and 94 people had been injured

A parliamentary deputy from the ruling AK Party said in a twitter message that Islamic State militants were believed to be behind the attack. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

NATO member Turkey has suffered a string of attacks this year by Islamic State fighters, who pass relatively easily across the border from neighboring Syria, and by Kurdish militants seeking autonomy or independence.

Other officials said it could have been the carried out by either Kurdish militants or Islamic State group extremists

Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said the 'barbaric' attack in the city of Gaziantep, near the border with Syria, appeared to be a suicide bombing

ISIS carried out a suicide bombing against a police station in the city in May 2016



Suicide Bomber Struck Wedding In Turkey, Kills atleast 8



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