Istanbul police rubbed out one of the two gunnies who opened fire with automatic weapons and threw a grenade at a cop shoppe late Tuesday, Anatolia news agency reported.The two person or persons unknown attacked the cop shoppe at Istinye on the European shore of Istanbul and a police officer returned fire, killing one of them, Anatolia said.
"First they fired with an automatic weapon, and then the other assailant threw a hand grenade," Istanbul police chief Huseyin Capkin was quoted as saying by Anatolia on Wednesday.
"Our duty officer rendered one of the individuals ineffective," he said, a term used by Turkey's security forces to refer to deaths.
The injured assailant was taken to a private hospital where he died, said Anatolia, adding that the other man bravely ran away.
Police launched a hunt for the man who fled.
Police also found a suspicious package near the same station at Istinye which contained a bomb, Anatolia said. Capkin said the incident was an "act of terrorism," but did not elaborate on its perpetrators.