[Al Arabiya Latest] Fifteen people were injured in a bomb attack Tuesday in Turkey's biggest city Istanbul targeting a police minibus, the Anatolia news agency reported, as Turkey was preparing to use a regional summit to ramp up pressure on Israel over the attack on the Gaza-bound flotilla.The road-side bomb exploded in front of a hospital in the Kucukcekmece district, on the European side of the city straddling the Bosphorus Strait, as the vehicle carrying officers on their way to work was passing.
The injured included both officers and passers-by, the report said.
Tuesday's bomb blast came as Turkey was hosting several leaders for the summit of an Asian security grouping in the city, among them Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.