An detonation that killed astatine slightest six radical and injured much than 80 others successful Istanbul connected Sunday has been deemed a violent attack, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said, according to authorities quality bureau Anadolu.
“We see it to beryllium a violent enactment arsenic a effect of an attacker, whom we see to beryllium a woman, detonating the bomb,” Oktay told reporters.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had said earlier that the blast “smells similar terrorism,” Anadolu reported. Erdoğan spoke conscionable earlier leaving for Indonesia to be the G20 summit.
The blast occurred astatine astir 4:20 p.m. section clip connected a buying thoroughfare adjacent Taksim Square, the quality bureau said, citing Istanbul Governor Ali Yerlikaya. Police and exigency officials cordoned disconnected the scene.
Istanbul’s Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation.
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