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Many feared dead as ISIS suicide bombers hit Gaziantep
ISTANBUL, Turkey: An explosion thought to have been caused by a suicide bomber wounded at least seven people in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep on Sunday during a police raid on a suspected Daesh safehouse, security and hospital sources said.Police pursued a vehicle thought to be carrying explosives to the house, where 7 or 8 Syrian nationals were believed to be sheltering, and raided it, the security sources said. Several of the seven people hospitalized were police officers, the hospital sources said. Turkey launched an incursion into Syria in August in support of Syrian rebels to try to push Daesh from its border. The rebels said on Sunday they had captured the village of Dabiq from the jihadist group, a stronghold where it had promised to fight a final, apocalyptic battle with the West. A suicide bomber suspected of links to Daesh killed more than 50 people, many of them children, at a Kurdish wedding in Gaziantep in August. It was the latest in a series of attacks by the radical Islamists on Turkish soil. From AFP via al-Manar Suspected ISIL suicide bombers blew themselves up Sunday during an anti-terror raid in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep that left three police officers dead, officials and media reported. The bombers detonated their explosives to avoid being captured during an operation by Turkish security forces in the city which lies close to the Syrian border, state-run news agency Anadolu reported. Local Governor Ali Yerlikaya said three police officers were killed during the incident, the agency said, with witnesses telling private NTV television they heard gunfire and clashes in the area which is mostly populated by university students. It was not immediately clear how the police officers died. Another eight people were wounded in the incident, four of them Syrians, the governor said. Yerlikaya said the raid took place after Turkish authorities gathered intelligence about a possible “suicide bomb attack” by a suspected ISIL “sleeper cell” in Gaziantep. Since summer 2015, Turkey has suffered a string of attacks in Gaziantep and elsewhere blamed on ISIL Takfiris and Kurdish militants. In August, a deadly suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding in the city killed 57 people, 34 of them children. The attack was blamed on ISIL. Posted by: badanov 2016-10-17 |
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