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Suspected bomb kills one at Istanbul airport, investigation launched
 [IN.REUTERS] One person was killed when an kaboom hit an Istanbul airport overnight and damaged five planes, a Turkish minister said, adding that it was still too early to confirm whether the blast had been caused by a bomb.Makes sense. It exploded, so we suspect it's a bomb. Coulda been a propane tank or... ummm... something else. The blast at Sabiha Gokcen, the city's second airport and located on its Asian side, occurred shortly after 2:00 a.m. (midnight GMT), local budget carrier Pegasus said, fatally wounding a cleaner on one of its planes. "There was damage to five airplanes in total due to the impact of shrapnel. Weakness in the airport's security is out of the question. All international security standards are being implemented," Transportation Minister Binali Yildirim told news hounds. "On the cause of the incident, security and intelligence teams are carrying out investigations. But it's too early to reach a verdict or comment on it yet." Bomb attacks by Kurdish, leftist and Islamist snuffies are common in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . A three-decade-old conflict between the state and the krazed killer Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has flared up in the mainly Kurdish southeast since the collapse of a ceasefire in July. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-24 |
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