Breaking News--ISTANBUL Internet Cafe Bomb Exploded
STANBUL (Reuters) Thu Feb 9, 2006 1:34 PM GMT
- Istanbul's police chief said a bomb blast on Thursday at an Internet cafe in the city had wounded 14 people.
STANBUL (Reuters) Thu Feb 9, 2006 1:34 PM GMT
- Istanbul's police chief said a bomb blast on Thursday at an Internet cafe in the city had wounded 14 people.Police had said earlier that it was a gas explosion.
"It's a bomb explosion, there are 14 injured. One of them is seriously injured," Celalettin Cerrah told reporters after visiting the Internet cafe where the blast occurred. Six of the injured were police officers, he said.
The blast rocked the Bayrampasa district, not far from the airport on the European side of Turkey's largest city.
Militant Islamists carried out a series of devastating explosions in Istanbul in November 2003 that targeted British and Jewish sites and killed more than 60 people.
Other radical groups including Kurdish separatists also operate in Turkey and have in the past carried out violent attacks on both civilian and military targets.
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