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Explosions Rock Airport in Istanbul Explosions Rock Main Airport in Istanbul
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ISTANBUL — Two explosions shook Istanbul’s main airport on Tuesday evening, and many people were injured, the Interior Ministry said. ISTANBUL — Two explosions at Turkey’s largest airport left at least 10 people dead and injured some 20 others on Tuesday night, according to Turkish authorities and television reports.
Witnesses and Turkish media reported that gunfire was heard. Local television outlets broadcast images of soldiers armed with assault rifles entering the Ataturk airport. A witness told CNN Turk that injured people were being taken away in taxis, Reuters reported. The Turkish justice minister, Bekir Bozdag, said 10 people had been killed in an attack on Ataturk airport. He said that one attacker fired an automatic weapon before blowing himself up.
Turkey has been rocked by a series of bombings in recent months. Officials have variously blamed Kurdish separatists or Islamic State militants for the attacks. Another Turkish government official said that the police fired shots at two suspected attackers at the entryway to the airport’s international terminal, in an effort to stop them before they reached the building’s security checkpoint. The two suspects then blew themselves up, the official said.
CNN Turk reported that one suicide bomber detonated explosives inside the terminal building and another outside in a parking lot.
NTV reported that airport workers were streaming out of the building, crying. A witness told CNN Turk that injured people were being taken away in taxis, Reuters reported.
T24, an internet news site, showed photographs of people bending to help two people who were lying on the pavement just outside the airport. Birgun, a Turkish newspaper, posted photographs of fallen tiles and shattered pieces of concrete near a line of cabs outside the airport.
Turkey has been rocked by a series of bombings since 2014, and they have been increasing in frequency. Officials have variously blamed Kurdish separatists or Islamic State militants for the attacks. On June 7, a police van was blown up by Kurdish separatists, killing 11 people, five of them civilians. And in January, an Islamic State operative from Syria blew himself up, killing 10 foreign tourists.
Ataturk airport has expanded in recent years and is now the third busiest in Europe, ranked by the annual number of passengers, after Heathrow in London and Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
On Monday, the State Department renewed a warning it issued three months ago, advising American citizens about the danger of travel to Turkey because of terrorist threats.
“Foreign and U.S. tourists have been explicitly targeted by international and indigenous terrorist organizations,” the department said in the warning, which was posted on the State Department’s website.