A bomb exploded on a popular pedestrian street in Istanbul, killing six people, wounding dozens and sending people fleeing as flames rose.
An explosion that killed at least six people and injured at least 81 others in Istanbul on Sunday has been deemed a terrorist attack, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said, according to state news agency Anadolu.
Bozdag, who made the comments in an interview with privately owned A Haber news channel, said Turkish security forces believe the woman is the suspect, and officials are investigating her. The blast happened on Istiklal Street in Beyoglu Square, in the heart of Turkey's largest city, Istanbul Governor Ali Yerlikaya said.
Turkey's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca tweeted Sunday evening that 39 of the 81 people injured in the explosion have been discharged from the hospital after completing their treatment. "There was a man in the store bleeding from his ears and his legs, and his friends were crying near him," Keblaoui said."It went very quickly from a very peaceful Sunday with a very crowded street full of tourists to being what looked like the aftermath of a war zone," Keblaoui said.Earlier Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the explosion might be terror-related, but he was not yet certain.
French President Emmanuel Macron, whose own country suffered a deadly terror attack exactly seven years earlier, shared his sympathies for the Turkish people.
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