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Casualties reported after bus blast outside Turkish university | Casualties reported after bus blast outside Turkish university |
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An explosion has hit a bus outside a university in the Turkish city of Kayseri. Several people have been killed and injured, and ambulances have been dispatched to the scene, Reuters reports, citing hospital and security sources. | |
There are no precise figures on casualties so far. | There are no precise figures on casualties so far. |
There has been no official statement as to what caused the blast, but a witness cited by Haberturk claimed that a car near the bus exploded. | |
Turkish NTV broadcaster reports the bus was carrying civilians and off-duty soldiers. | |
The Prime Minister’s office has been informed of the blast, and Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council has issued a provisional publication ban on the explosion in Kayseri, NTV reports. | |
Saturday’s explosion comes only a week after a twin bombing outside an Istanbul soccer stadium killed over 40 people and wounded more than 100. That attack was claimed by Kurdish militants. | |
READ MORE: Twin Istanbul blasts kill 38, injure 155 near Besiktas stadium (VIDEOS, PHOTOS) | |
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