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Turkey: Suspected attacker seized outside PM's office | |
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Police in Turkey have arrested a suspected attacker outside the prime minister's office, according to reports. | |
Security officials originally believed the man was suicide bomber and fired shots in the air. | |
But Turkey's interior minister said the package he was carrying only resembled a bomb, and he was "mentally unstable". | |
Video footage showed security restrictions being put into place around the building in Ankara. | |
Interrogated | |
There were conflicting reports, with state-run media earlier saying the alleged attacker had been shot by police and taken to hospital. | |
But an adviser to the prime minister said on Twitter that officers had fired into the air and no-one was hurt. | But an adviser to the prime minister said on Twitter that officers had fired into the air and no-one was hurt. |
Turkey's state-run Anatolia news agency said security guards captured a 52-year-old suspect, who was thought to be wearing explosives, after he attempted to enter the prime minister's building. | |
They wrestled him to the ground while a bomb squad investigated. | |
"This individual was carrying a device resembling a bomb but in fact it was not one," Interior Minister Muammer Guler said, describing him as "mentally unstable". | |
The man was taken to a police station where he was being interrogated about the incident, AFP news agency reported. | |
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was not believed to have been in the building at the time. | |
He is due to leave later Thursday for a visit to Moscow. | |
NTV television reported that a man had called the police saying he was a suicide bomber and was planning to go to Mr Erdogan's office. | |
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