ISTANBUL: The Turkish Interior Minister has claimed detaining prime suspect believed believed to be involved in yesterday’s blast at Istiklal square on Sunday in which some 6 innocent lives were lost while more than 80 people were injured. Four females, including a nine-year-old girl, and two men, are killed in the blast.
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Local media quoted Minister Suleyman Soylu as saying “the person who planted the bomb was detained by the Istanbul Police Department. Before that, about 21 more people had been detained.”
Earler, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca later said 39 out of 81 people who were wounded during the suspected terror attack were discharged from the hospital, adding that “five of the 42 wounded are in the intensive care unit, two of them in critical condition.”
Minutes after the yesterday’s blast, Istanbul Governor Ali Yerlikaya, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the explosion could be an act of terrorism.
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Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag was quoted as having said that a woman sat on one of the benches on the street for more than 40 minutes, and the explosion occurred just minutes after she got up. “There are two possibilities. Either there is a self-exploding mechanism in the bag or someone detonated it (with remote control),” Bozdag was quoted as saying.
