Besiktas: Stadium blasts kill at least 13 people

Explosions near a stadium after a football game in Istanbul, Turkey, killed at least 13 people and injured others, reports say.


Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said it was thought a car bomb had specifically targeted riot police.
Witnesses heard gunfire after the attack, and ambulances and police vehicles rushed to the scene.

Turkey has seen a recent spate of militant attacks in major cities that have left dozens of people dead.

No group has said it was behind the attack but a wave of bombings in Turkey this year has been carried out by Kurdish militants and so-called Islamic State...
 BBC, aljazeera.com, i24news.tv

10/12/16

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• 20 injured in blast outside Besiktas stadium in Istanbul