Suicide bomber carried out attack in Turkey
A male suicide bomber carried out the attack in Turkey that killed six people and injured 91 others, the governor of Ankara announced.
Gov. Kemal Onal identified the suicide attacker as the 36-year-old Guven Akkus, and said the type of the attack was similar to those carried out by Kurdish rebels.
News of the bomber came as shopkeepers hung Turkish flags on the broken windows of a shopping centre to protest about the bomb attack, as the government pondered new security measures at the start of the tourist season.
Yesterday’s blast outside one of the oldest shopping centres in Ankara hurled glass and other debris over a wide area, severely injuring some people and slightly injuring dozens of others, including at least eight Pakistanis.
There has been no claim of responsibility so far.
Kurdish militants who have claimed several such attacks in the past have threatened to stage new ones.
Leftist and Islamic militants have also carried out bombings in Turkey.
The prosecutor’s office banned the broadcasting of images from the site on grounds that it could hurt public morale, but the ban was not observed by some television channels.
Police detained a flag-waving nationalist Turk who wanted to protest about the attack early today.
