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| Car bomb in Izmir wounds 10 | ||
| 2017-01-06 | ||
| [al-Manar] A car bomb exploded outside a courthouse in the western Turkish city of Izmir on Thursday, wounding at least 10 people and sparking clashes in which at least two “terrorists” were killed, officials and reports said. Several ambulances were rushed to the scene after the blast outside the prosecutors and judges’ entrance to the court in the usually peaceful city on the Aegean Sea, the channel said. Police then clashed with “terrorists” during which two of them were killed and one escaped, according to state-run Anatolia news agency. The mayor of the local Bayrakli municipality, Hassan Karabag, told NTV television that at least 10 people were wounded, one of them seriously. The wounded were taken to hospital as police secured the scene. As is customary after such attacks in Turkey, the authorities slapped a broadcast ban on images from the incident, state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
Two men armed with machine guns, grenades and a rocket launcher were later killed while a third is on the run after a deadly car bomb outside a courthouse. Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said it could have been much worse: 'Based on the preparation, the weapons, the bombs and ammunition seized, it is understood that a big atrocity was being planned.'
It added that security forces carried out a controlled kaboom on a vehicle that the attackers may have been looking to use as a getaway car. The usually peaceful port city, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's third largest metropolis, is the gateway to the plush beach resorts of the Aegean and rarely sees violence on this scale. It is well west of the PKK's main theatre in southeastern Turkey. | ||
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