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Turkey: 2 women hurl hand grenade, fire at police Turkish police kill 2 women after attack on police station
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ISTANBUL — Two female attackers on Thursday opened fire and hurled a hand grenade at police outside of a riot police station in Istanbul, Turkish media reports said. One of the assailants was believed to have been wounded when police returned fire. ISTANBUL — Turkey’s state-run news agency says police in Istanbul have shot and killed two women who had earlier attacked police with gunfire and a hand grenade.
The state-run Anadolu Agency said the two attackers escaped the scene in a vehicle and were hiding inside a building some distance from the police station. Police have surrounded the building and are preparing to launch an operation to catch them, Anadolu said. The women had escaped the scene in a vehicle and hid inside a building a short distance from the police station. Police then surrounded the building and launched an operation to apprehend them.
Dogan news agency showed what appeared to be security camera footage of the two women firing at a police bus and throwing a hand grenade at it, before apparently aiming at the police station. There was no immediate responsibility claim for the attack on the riot police station in Istanbul’s Bayrampasa district. Both Kurdish rebels and militants of a far-left organization have attacked police in the city in the past.
No police officer was injured in the attack, according to state-run TRT television.
The motive of the attack was not known but both Kurdish rebels and militants of a far-left organization have attacked police in the past.
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