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5 injured in Istanbul car blast near military facility – reports 8 injured in Istanbul car blast near military facility – officials
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A car stuffed with explosives detonated outside a military barracks in Istanbul’s Sancaktepe district, injuring five people, according to media reports. A car stuffed with explosives detonated outside a military barracks in Istanbul’s Sancaktepe district, injuring eight people, according to the governor of Istanbul Province.
The Turkish military blamed the attack on Kurdish separatists, while saying that no army personnel were affected by the explosion, which went off next to a bus stop. The official, Vasip Sahin, said that five military personnel and three civilians have been taken to a hospital, but none have suffered serious injuries.
Turkish news agency Dogan said the blast rang out just as a vehicle carrying military personnel was speeding past, and that four men and one woman were among the casualties. According to Sahin, the explosive-packed car was parked 200 yards outside the entrance to the military facility, as the perpetrators of the attack lay in wait.
The resulting fire was extinguished by multiple fire crews, while paramedics continue to work on the site, which has been sealed off as a crowd of onlookers gathered. A military transport emerged out of the gates, and is it drew closer, the attackers remotely set off the car bomb. Sahin said that the bombers mistimed the detonation, and the van was still 30 meters away, meaning that worse casualties were avoided. Nonetheless, the vehicle's window panes were blown out, grazing those inside.
Since the escalation of the conflict with its sizeable Kurdish minority last year, there has been a spate of attacks pinned on militant Kurdish groups, including a bombing in the capital, Ankara, in March, which killed 37 people. The resulting fire was extinguished by multiple fire crews, while paramedics continue to work on the site, which has been sealed off as a crowd of onlookers gathered. Police experts are examining nearby CCTV cameras, to see if the perpetrators can be identified.
The Turkish military blamed the attack on Kurdish separatists.
Since the escalation of the conflict with its sizable Kurdish minority last year, there has been a spate of attacks pinned on militant Kurdish groups, including a bombing in the capital, Ankara, in March, which killed 37 people.
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