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| Istanbul siege: Two female militants trapped in apartment after 'bombing Turkish police station' | Istanbul siege: Two female militants trapped in apartment after 'bombing Turkish police station' |
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| Turkish police have trapped two female militants in an apartment building after they reportedly launched a gun and grenade attack an Istanbul police station. | |
| According to CNN Turk, the women attacked riot police in the Bayrampaşa district on the European side of the city on Thursday morning, though there were no casualties. | |
| Local media reported that the assailants fled the scene leaving a car behind, and were later trapped in a building by armed officers. | |
| Bayrampaşa was also the scene of a terror attack in December, when a pipe bomb exploded on an overpass near a Metro station injuring five people. | |
| And Turkey as a whole has been on high alert since the devastating bomb attacks on Ankara in October, where more than 100 people died. | |
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