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Turkey terror attack: mourning after scores killed in Ankara blasts
- More than 90 killed by blasts in Turkish capital
- Two explosions target pro-Kurdish peace rally near main train station
- Suicide bombers mount attack three weeks before elections
- PM declares three days of national mourning
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Moment of explosion at Ankara peace rally - video
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Nadia Khomami and agencies
Sunday 11 October 2015 06.13 BSTLast modified on Monday 12 October 201516.03 BST
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At least 95 people have been killed and around 250 wounded in the deadliest terror attack in Turkey’s history after two explosions targeted a peace rally in the centre of the capital.
Twin explosions outside Ankara’s main train station on Saturday morning targeted hundreds of people who had gathered to protest against violence between authorities and the Kurdish militant group, the PKK.
Turkish government officials said the explosions were a terrorist attack carried out by suicide bombers but no group immediately claimed responsibility. Turkey’s prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, called emergency meetings with government officials and security chiefs.
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Aftermath of Ankara bomb attack.
Early statements put the death toll at 86, but on Saturday evening both the pro-Kurdish HDP party and the Turkish Medical Association revised the estimate to at least 97, while the wounded numbered 245 or more.
Immediately after the attack at least 20 bodies could be seen covered by bloodstained flags on the road. Witnesses said the blasts were seconds apart shortly after 10am and were so powerful they rocked nearby high-rise buildings.
Turkey awoke in grief on Sunday. “We are in mourning for peace,” said the front-page headline in the secularist Cumhuriyet newspaper as three days of national mourning declared by the prime minister got under way.
Other papers voiced public anger over the attack. “Scum attacked in Ankara,” said the Haberturk newspaper, while the pro-government Star declared: “The goal is to divide the nation.”
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One of the bombers was identified as a male aged between 25-30 after analysing bodies at the scene and taking fingerprints, the pro-government Yeni Safak said.
Davutoglu, exposing a mosaic of domestic political perils, said
Islamic State, Kurdish or far-leftist militants could have carried out the bombing.
His office named 52 of the victims overnight and said autopsies were continuing. It said 246 wounded people were still being treated, 48 of them in intensive care.
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, condemned the double bombing, saying the attack targeted the country’s unity and peace. Erdoğan said: “I strongly condemn this heinous attack on our unity and our country’s peace. No matter what its origin, aim or name, we are against any form of terrorist act or terrorist organisation. We are obliged to be against it together.”
Victims lie on the street in Ankara as the scene of the explosion is cordoned off . Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The president said there was no distinction between the terrorist attack in Ankara, which came just three weeks ahead of parliamentary elections, and the ones targeting Turkish soldiers and police.
“Like other acts of terror, the attack at the Ankara train station is taking aim at our unity, brotherhood and future,” he added. “The solidarity and determination we are going to display in the face of this attack will be the biggest and the most meaningful response to the terror.”
Erdoğan urged people to be “against, not on the side of terror” and said the perpetrators of Saturday’s attack would be found in the shortest time and delivered to justice.
An injured man hugs an injured woman after the explosion Photograph: Tumay Berkin/Reuters
Some witnesses said ambulances could not immediately reach the scene of the attack, and that police obstructed the quick evacuation of the wounded from the square. Turkish MP Sirri Süreyya Önder also claimed a suspicious vehicle and another suspicious package had been found and that bomb-disposal experts had been called to the scene.
Did any one in France or philliphines ever payed any respects to the dead ones of Ankara by the hands of ISIS ?
If not why not ?
