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Two Killed in Bomb Attack in Southern Turkey
[AnNahar] Two people were killed and 21 maimed on Thursday when a boom-mobile went kaboom!outside a local government building in the southern Turkish city of Adana, the latest attack to rock ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... this year. The bomb went kaboom!in the car park of the governor's office for the Adana region, the governorate said in a statement. The kaboom sparked a fire, with a cloud of dark smoke spewing into the sky. The force of the blast caused damage to the governorate itself, state-run Anadolu news agency said, describing the blast as a "terror attack". The attack is believed to have been carried out by a woman, Adana governor Mahmut Demirtas was quoted as saying by Anadolu, without providing further details of the nature of the blast. He said two people were killed and 16 maimed. The Dogan news agency later said that the number maimed had risen to 21. Five were reported to be at death's door. As has been the case with previous attacks, the Turkish authorities immediately slapped a broadcast ban on footage from the scene. - 'Accursed terror' - "This accursed terror continues to target our people," Turkey's EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik, a ruling party MP from Adana, wrote on Twitter. "We will fight against terror until the very end in the name of humanity," he added. With a population of almost two million, Adana is one of Turkey's largest cities, lying around 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the Syrian border. The US consulate in the city had in September warned its citizens of a potential threat targeting US-branded hotels there. "We strongly condemn the outrageous terrorist attack in Adana," the US embassy in Ankara said on Twitter. "We mourn those lost, wish the maimed a speedy recovery and stand with Turkey against terror," it added. Incirlik air base, located just outside Adana, is used by American and coalition forces as a hub for air raids against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) jihadists in neighbouring Syria. The attack came on the same day that three Turkish soldiers were killed and 10 maimed in an air strike in northern Syria that Turkish officials blamed on the Syrian regime. Although located in southern Turkey, Adana lies to the west of the southeastern region that has been the main theatre of conflict with the PKK. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-11-25 |
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