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PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:47 pm 
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Several injured in explosions at Turkey's largest airport
Multiple injuries confirmed by Turkish officials after two explosions and gunfire reported at Ataturk in Istanbul



Turkey’s largest airport, Istanbul Ataturk, was hit by twin explosions on Tuesday evening, according to Turkish officials, who added that several people were injured in the blasts.

State-run TRT television said an explosion hit a control point at the international arrival terminal of the airport.

A witness told broadcaster CNN Turk that gunfire was also heard from the car park at the airport. Taxis were ferrying wounded people from the airport, the witness told CNN Turk.

At least 11 people were killed earlier this month in a car bomb attack in central Istanbul, the latest in a series of terror attacks in Turkey.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:03 pm 
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Turkey airport attack: 10 killed in explosions at Istanbul Ataturk

Police opened fire on two suspects who then blew themselves up outside security checkpoint at international terminal, Turkish officials say

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 5:33 pm 
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Turkey airport attack: 28 killed in explosions at Istanbul Atatürk
Police opened fire on two suspects who then blew themselves up outside security checkpoint at international terminal, Turkish officials say

At least 28 people have been killed and 60 injured in an attack by three suicide bombers on Turkey’s largest airport, Istanbul Atatürk, according to senior officials.

Vasip Sahin, the governor of Istanbul province told the NTV news channel that 28 people had died, and said that authorities believe three suicide bombers were involved, because there were three separate explosions.

Another Turkish official told the Guardian that the suspects blew themselves up outside the security checkpoint at the entry to the international terminal, after police opened fire on them.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:12 pm 
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June 28, 2016 at 5:42 pm

Now up to 7.

ago Abdulkadir Selvi (A Turkish news writer) says that: ” Undercover policemen notices a man wearing overcoat and starts to follow him. He meets up with 2 other men and they realize they are being followed. They started open fire towards the policemen and one of the terrorist explodes himself at the international arrivals waiting lobby. This is where most of the casualties occurred. The other 2 terrorists go inside the international arrivals part and explodes themselves in there. It is suspected that there were 7 terrorists. – CNNTurk Television

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The Associated Press cited an unnamed Turkish official who said that the death toll could be as high as 50.

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The Guardian has been told by the office of the Turkish justice minister that the number of confirmed dead has now risen to 31. 147 people have been wounded.

Turkey’s state broadcaster TRT is reporting 38 people are dead, including 5 police, and at least 120 are injured.

Figures of those killed and injured are notoriously difficult to ascertain in the hours after an attack of this nature. These numbers are likely to change again.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 7:28 pm 
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summary of the main events:
  • 41 people were killed and 239 wounded in a gun and bombing attack on the Ataturk international airport in Istanbul on Tuesday night.
  • 13 of the 41 dead are foreign nationals, including five from Saudi Arabia, two from Iraq, and one each from Tunisia, Uzbekistan, China, Iran, Ukraine and Jordan. The Palestinian ambassador to Turkey has also said a Palestinian woman was killed.
  • Authorities believe three men armed with Kalashnikov rifles attacked the airport, detonating suicide vests when confronted by police officers.
  • No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but Turkey’s prime minister, Binali Yildirim, has said the attack was carried out by Daesh (Islamic State).
  • Yildirim said the men caught a taxi to the airport, launching their assault at the international arrivals terminal.
  • Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the attack showed "the dark face of terror that targets innocent civilians"
  • The bombing at Atatürk – Turkey’s largest airport, and the third-busiest in Europe – is the third suicide attack on Istanbul in 2016.
  • Ataturk airport has reopened, with incoming and outgoing flights – which were halted in the immediate aftermath of the attack – operating this morning, although many are cancelled or delayed.
  • Foreign ministers from around the world, including Russia and Israel - two countries previously at odds with Turkey - have offered their condolences and support.

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Istanbul airport attack: Turkey says bombers were from Russia and central Asia
Announcement follows dawn raids on suspected Isis cells in Istanbul, where 16 people were detained, and Izmir
Constanze Letsch
Thursday 30 June 2016 13.17 BST

Three foreign nationals – a Russian, an Uzbek and a Kyrgyz – carried out the shooting and triple suicide bombing at Atatürk airport in Istanbul, Turkish officials have said, but questions remain over security shortcomings that allowed the attackers to breach several control points and kill 43 people.

The announcement, made to western and Turkish news agencies, came as Turkish police carried out raids against suspected Islamic State cells in Istanbul and the Aegean coastal city of Izmir, arresting a further three foreign nationals

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