Fatalities are seven police officers and four civilians – said Sahin, adding that the three injured people are in critical condition.
– consular services verify that among the injured in a bomb attack in Turkey is not Polish citizens – said the director of the Office of the Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Rafal Sobczak. He pointed out that the current lack of information, that among the injuries and deaths were Poles.
– We are in contact with Turkish local services – Sobczak said.
The bomb was remotely detonated when the next unloaded explosives vehicle passed a police bus – told Turkish CNN Turk. She showed car wreck and sellers oscillate with the nearby souvenir shops, the big intersection near Istanbul’s Old Town, in the European part of the metropolitan area.
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According to news agency Dogan bomb was placed in a car parked on the edge of the roadway. By the force of the explosion collapsed just a passing police bus and nearby buildings were damaged, including a hotel.
The agency dpa reported that the explosion site is about a kilometer away in a straight line from the Grand Bazaar and 1.5 km from the famous Blue Mosque, where in January the Islamic State carried out the attack, which killed 12 German tourists.
The State news agency Anatolia gave it right after Tuesday’s explosion, the sounds of gunfire.
For now, no one confessed to the bombing. Reuters reminds, however, that the recent attacks in Turkey conducted Kurdish militants, jihadists of IS and the radical left-wing organizations, for example. Front-Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party (DHKP-C). The aim of the attacks often fell representatives of the Turkish security forces.
Erdogan accused the Kurds
The attack Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
– It’s not news that the terrorist organization (PKK term for) organizes its attacks in Turkish cities – Erdogan told reporters at the end of a visit to the hospital, where he visited the wounded.
– Our fight against terrorism will continue until the end, to destroy – continued. He stated that “such an attack can not be forgiven,” and asserted that have been taken all necessary steps, because “we have to be ready for any possible” act of terror.
Coup in Istanbul condemned the US ambassador to Turkey. He stressed that the United States stands “shoulder to shoulder” with its NATO ally in the fight against terrorism.
“I am deeply saddened by the barbaric attack in Istanbul. Such senseless violence can never be explained in any way,” – wrote on Twitter John Bass.
In May, eight people were injured when the car bomb exploded near the military airport in Istanbul during the evening rush hour.
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