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A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device near Turkey’s interior ministry building in the heart of the capital Ankara on Sunday. A second assailant was killed in a shootout with police. Two police officers were injured in what the interior ministry called a “terrorist attack”.
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“Two terrorists arrived in a light military vehicle at around 9:30 am (0630 GMT), in front of the entrance gate of the General Directorate of Security of our ministry of the interior, and carried out a bomb attack,” Turkey’s interior ministry said.
Two police officers were slightly injured during the attack near the ministry of interior affairs, Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Yerlikaya said the assailants arrived at the scene inside a light commercial vehicle.
BREAKING — An explosion and gun fire heard in Turkey’s capital Ankara around 9am in the morning, near the parliament and the ministries
Turkish Parliament opens today after summer recess
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Reporting from Ankara, FRANCE 24’s Jasper Mortimer said the two militants drove a small, grey commercial van up to the security offices of the interior ministry, which are around 300 metres from the main parliament building.
“The militants got out of the van, they fired at the police guarding the ministry. One militant detonated his suicide vest, the other militant was shot dead,” said Mortimer.
Ankara’s chief prosecutor launched an investigation into what it also called a terrorist attack.
Authorities did not identify any specific militant group.
Turkish media earlier reported that an…
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