On Sunday, November 13, 2022, six people were killed and 81 injured after a bomb explosion rocked the busy Istiklal pedestrian street in Central Istanbul.
According to the State-run Anadolu agency's English-language Twitter account, Turkey's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu on Monday said the person who planted the bomb has been arrested.
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IMAGE: Members of the forensics team work next to a baby trolley left behind near the scene of the explosion. Photograph: Umit Bektas/Reuters
IMAGE: Emergency personnel secure the scene of the explosion.
The previous terrorist attack in Istanbul was a nightclub
mass shooting in 2017, killing 39 people and wounding 79 others.
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IMAGE: A boy separated from his parents is cared for after the explosion. Photograph: Burak Kara/Getty Images
IMAGE: Ambulances arrive following the explosion. Photograph: Kemal Aslan/Reuters
IMAGE: Bodies of unidentified victims at the scene. Photograph: Kemal Aslan/Reuters
IMAGE: Crime scene investigators work near the victims's bodies. Photograph: Kemal Aslan/Reuters
IMAGE: A CSI at work. Photograph: Kemal Aslan/Reuters
IMAGE: A victim's body is taken to the morgue. Photograph: Kemal Aslan/Reuters
IMAGE: Police personnel at the scene. Photograph: Kemal Aslan/Reuters
IMAGE: Shocked bystanders at the scene of the tragedy. Photograph: Burak Kara/Getty Images
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