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Two consecutive explosions in a busy shopping district in an Istanbul suburb have killed at least 13 people and injured 70, according to Istanbul’s governor who said it was a “terror attack.”
Governor Muammer Guler says that at least 70 people have been injured in the explosions in the working class residential Gungoren district of Istanbul.
Turkish television stations showed ambulances carrying badly wounded people to hospital.
A witness says the two explosions were some 10 minutes apart.
“The first explosion was not very strong,” said Huseyin Senturk, who owns a shoe shop in the area. “Several people came to see what was going on. That’s when the second explosion occurred and it injured many onlookers.”
“We received nearly 30 very heavily wounded people,” said Abdullah Toker, a manager at Gungoren Kolon Hospital.
Several groups, including Kurdish separatists, far-left groups and Islamists have carried out bomb attacks in Istanbul in the past.