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| The Grand Turk |
| Bomb injures ten policemen near Turkey ruling party HQ |
| 2012-03-01 |
| A remote control bomb wounded ten police officers on Thursday as their vehicle passed by the Istanbul headquarters of Turkey's ruling AK Party. Istanbul police chief Huseyin Capkin said the device was placed on a motorcycle and detonated by remote control as a police vehicle drove past, near the AK Party headquarters and the offices of a conservative business association. Capkin said, "As a police vehicle carrying 21 officers was passing by, a remote control bomb on a motorcycle exploded. Our teams are carrying out the investigation. Ten policemen were wounded, but none of them are in critical condition." One witness said, "There are wounded people, many ambulances are coming here after the explosion." Another said, "It was a very strong explosion like an earthquake." The spokesman of the Independent Industrialists and Businessmen's Association, whose headquarters are next to the AK Party building, said, "We were afraid the bomb had hit our building because the blast was so loud, windows were broken and the wounded police officers were given first aid in our building." Fire engines and police vehicles surrounded the location, and shattered glass from nearby buildings littered the streets near the scene in Istanbul's Sutluce district. |
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