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Several people have been injured in an explosion which rocked the car park of a chamber of commerce building in the tourist resort of Antalya in southern Turkey. | |
The Dogan news agency broadcast footage showing at least five ambulances in front of the building, surrounded by dozens of people. | |
An eyewitness who was at the building told CNN Turk the blast smashed windows and left people bloodied and a Dogan reporter said one vehicle was blown apart. | |
The cause of the explosion was not immediately known but NTV television and other reports said it may have been caused by a car bomb left in the car park. | |
Antalya Chamber of Trade and Industry head Davut Cetin told CNN Turk there were no fatalities in the explosion. | |
The explosion occured as employees were arriving at the building for work, hours before the trade chamber was scheduled to hold a meeting to be attended by the mayor. | |
Police sealed the trade center's perimeter in case of a second explosion. | |
Antalya is a major tourist resort on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. In August, two rockets hit a commercial facility near a resort town in the province, but caused no casualties. | |
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for that attack, but Kurdish and far-left militants have staged similar attacks, mostly against the security forces, in the past. | |
Turkey has been hit by a series of deadly bombings this year, some of which have been blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), and some on Isis militants. | |
In August a suicide bomber killed at least 50 people in an attack on a wedding party in the southeastern city of Gaziantep. | |
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