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| Ankara explosion: At least 28 killed and 61 injured after 'car bomb' hits centre of Turkish capital | |
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| Around 28 people have been killed after an apparent car bomb rocked the Turkish capital of Ankara. | Around 28 people have been killed after an apparent car bomb rocked the Turkish capital of Ankara. |
| Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said a further 61 were wounded. | Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said a further 61 were wounded. |
| A statement from the armed forces said a bus carrying military personnel was targeted when it stopped at a set of traffic lights outside army barracks. | A statement from the armed forces said a bus carrying military personnel was targeted when it stopped at a set of traffic lights outside army barracks. |
| It is thought the blast occurred just a few hundred metres away from the parliament and the military headquarters in the centre of the city. | It is thought the blast occurred just a few hundred metres away from the parliament and the military headquarters in the centre of the city. |
| Videos and images posted on social media showed large flames straight after the explosion and plumes of smokes rising into the sky, said to be over downtown Eskisehir Avenue. | Videos and images posted on social media showed large flames straight after the explosion and plumes of smokes rising into the sky, said to be over downtown Eskisehir Avenue. |
| Deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus confirmed the explosion had been caused by a car bomb and said seven prosecutors had been assigned to investigate the "well-planned" attack. | |
| President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country was determined to fight those who carried out the attack as well as the "forces" supporting them. | |
| Following the attack, AKP, Turkey's ruling party, spokesman Ömer Çelik posted on Twitter: "Terror has attacked treacherously in Ankara. We curse this attack." | |
| A Turkish official told Reuters that early signs indicated it the attack was carried out by the Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) - which has carried out attacks on Turkey in recent months - but no other source has confirmed this. | |
| Mr Erdogan's government has been accused of ramping up the rhetoric against the PKK following a breakdown in peace negotiations between the government and the separatist group last June. | Mr Erdogan's government has been accused of ramping up the rhetoric against the PKK following a breakdown in peace negotiations between the government and the separatist group last June. |
| Security forces have carried out large-scale operations against Kurdish militants in the south-east since December last year, imposing controversial curfews in flashpoint areas and displacing tens of thousands of civilians in combat zones. | |
| So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the blast but Isis has been known to carry out attacks on Turkey - with a suicide attack on the border town of Suruc killing 28 people and wounding 100 others last August. | |
| The terror group object to Turkey's intervention in Syria - which was stepped up following the Suruc attack. | The terror group object to Turkey's intervention in Syria - which was stepped up following the Suruc attack. |