A strong explosion of unknown origin shook the busy shopping road of Istiklal in Istanbul on Sunday, leaving six people dead and wounding dozens more, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. Turkey’s vice chairman said a self-murder bomber carried out the attack.It might be wrong if we say for sure that this is terror but according to first signs. there’s a smell of terror there,” Erdogan told a televised press conference.
The applicable units of our state are working to find the perpetrators. behind this vile attack,” he saidPolice cordoned off the area, where crowds were thick on Sunday autumn, and copters were flying over the megacity centre as enchantresses were sounding.
I was 50- 55 metres( yards) down, suddenly there was the noise of an explosion. I saw three or four people on the ground,” substantiation Cemal Denizci, 57, told AFPPeople were running in fear. The noise was huge. There was black bank. The noise was so strong, nearly blaring,” he said.
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Parents swept their children up into their arms as they fled the area.Authorities have given no suggestion of what caused the explosion.
According to an AFP videotape intelligencer on the scene, the police have established a large security cordon to help access to the damaged area for fear of a alternate explosion.A massive deployment of security forces inversely barred all entrances, while a heavy deployment of deliverance workers and police were visible.
The explosion passed shortly after 400 pm( 1300 GMT) in the notorious Istiklal shopping road which is popular with locals and excursionists.According to images posted on social media at the time of the explosion, it was accompanied by dears and incontinently touched off fear, with people running in all directions.
A large black crater was also visible in those images, as well as several bodies lying on the ground hardIstiklal Street had formerly been hit in the history during a crusade of attacks in 2015- 2016 that targeted Istanbul.Claimed by the Islamic State group, those attacks killed nearly 500 people and injured further than,000.
