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Five dead in Ankara car bomb, city governor says | Five dead in Ankara car bomb, city governor says |
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At least five people have been killed and 10 injured by a rush hour car bombing close to military buildings in the Turkish capital, the city governor has said. | |
Mehmet Kilicer said officials believe the explosion was aimed at a convoy of military service vehicles. | |
Plumes of smoke were seen rising over an area and the powerful blast was heard all over the city, sending residents to their balconies in panic. | |
Television footage an intense fire around a burned out bus and emergency vehicles rushing to the scene. Turkish police have thrown a security cordon around the area. | |
A spokesman for the ruling Justice and Development, or AK, party, Omer Celik, said he strongly condemned the attack. | |
There was no immediate indication about who carried it out. Ankara was already on alert after 103 people were killed before the general election in October in a suicide attack on a pro-Kurdish rally. A suicide bombing blamed on Isis killed 11 German tourists in Istanbul in January. | |
Turkey is also waging an all-out assault on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the south-east and shelling Syrian Kurdish fighters. | |
The private NTV channel said the explosion occurred during rush hour in an area close to where military headquarters are located as a bus carrying military personnel was passing by. | |
#SONDAKİKA Ankara'daki askeri servis konvoyuna yönelik saldırıya ilişkin yayın yasağı getirildi. pic.twitter.com/4RYcJPyVWk | |
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