ISTANBUL - A suspected car bomb on Thursday exploded near a police station in Istanbul, leaving at least five people wounded, Turkish television reported. Television pictures showed several cars wrecked and shards of glass scattering the ground after the blast. Witnesses also said one vehicle was seriously damaged, raising the prospect that it was a car bomb attack, CNN-Turk said. Kurdish militants have twice struck in Ankara in deadly attacks, while suspected Islamic State (IS) suicide bombers have on three occasions struck in Istanbul. Fifty-seven people, 34 of them children, were killed in August in a suicide attack blamed carried out by a bomber linked to IS jihadists at a Kurdish wedding in the southeastern city of Gaziantep.

Source: Bangkok Post October 06, 2016 13:30 UTC