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Trash can bomb injures three in Istanbul
15.6.2006
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ISTANBUL
(Reuters) - A bomb left in a trash container at a
major outdoor bus station injured at least three
people in central Istanbul on Thursday, a police
official said.
The explosive device was placed in a container in
Eminonu, a busy departure point for buses and
Bosphorus ferries near the main tourist attractions
in Turkey's largest city.
"A bomb has been left in a trash container ... there
were three injured," the police official told
Reuters, adding he did not know how serious the
injuries were.
But Istanbul police chief Celalettin Cerrah told
reporters at the scene that the cause of the
explosion was still being investigated. He said four
people had been injured, two of whom with damaged
eardrums.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Bomb
experts were investigating the blast.
Shards of twisted metal and trash were scattered
around the area, a busy crossroads nearly always
packed with traffic and people.
But men were still fishing off a main bridge
overlooking the site and one passerby took
photographs with his phone.
Istanbul -- a popular tourist destination -- has
been struck by a series of bombings in recent
months.
Militant groups, including Kurdish separatists,
Islamists and ultra-leftists, have carried out
attacks on civilians, security and military targets
in Turkey in the past.
Scores of soldiers and rebels of the outlawed
separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have also
been killed in separate clashes amid a rise in
violence in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast.
More than 30,000 people, mostly Kurds, have been
killed in the separatist conflict since the PKK took
up arms against the state in 1984 with the aim of
carving out an ethnic homeland.
The European Union and the United States, like
Ankara, view the PKK as a terrorist group.
Reuters
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