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The Grand Turk
2 Wounded In Explosion In Ankara
2012-04-03
(Xinhua) -- Two people were maimed in an kaboom in a car in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Monday, private Dogan news agency reported.
Faulty propane tank or premature reaction of explosive chemical mixture? We report, you decide.
The blast occurred in Balgat district of Ankara on Monday evening, leaving two women maimed, said the report, adding that they were sent to a hospital for medical treatment.

The police has rushed to the scene and are inspecting the incident, it said.
Ma'an thinks it was chemistry:
A kaboom in a working-class neighborhood of Istanbul injured two people on Monday, the private Dogan news agency said, hours after another device was disarmed in another district next to a five-star hotel in Turkey's biggest city.

It was not clear if the two incidents were related, but Kurdish separatists, Islamists, far-left groups and the extreme right have all carried out kabooms in Turkey in the past.

Ambulances went to the scene of the blast in Gaziosmanpasa, a run-down outlying area of Istanbul where far-left groups and Kurdish Islamic fascisti have been active.

Initial reports indicated two people were maimed, the agency said.

Earlier, police defused a device close to a five-star hotel and a former Ottoman palace in the Besiktas area of the city.
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