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Turkey bombing: Female suicide attacker hits Istanbul police station | |
(35 minutes later) | |
A female suicide bomber has blown herself up in the Turkish city of Istanbul, injuring two police officers, the city governor says. | |
She hit a police station in the city's tourist hub of Sultanahmet. | |
Governor Vasip Sahin told Turkish TV that the woman spoke English with "a thick accent", but her nationality and identity remained unknown. | |
No group has yet said they carried out the attack, the second on police in a week. | |
Police arrested a man who threw grenades and fired a weapon at officers near the prime minister's office last Thursday, but no-one was injured in the attack. | |
The bomber in the latest incident was reported to have died in the attack. | |
Police have sealed off an area in the historic district, where the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia museum are located. | |
Mr Sahin said the woman entered the station and told police she had lost her wallet before detonating the bomb. | |
"Right now one police officer is in hospital in a critical condition and another is lightly injured... The female bomber lost her life." |