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Car Bomb in Istanbul Kills 11

Explosives in a parked car were detonated by remote control as a police shuttle bus passed through the historic quarter of Beyazit during rush hour.
Amateur video shows the wreckage from an explosion in the city center on Tuesday, as bombers targeted a police shuttle bus, killing 11 people.

At least 11 people have been killed in Istanbul in a bomb attack on Tuesday morning. The explosion was on a busy road intersection in the Vezneciler district near Istanbul University and the Grand Bazaar. The Istanbul city governor, Vasip Şahin, says a car was packed with explosives and detonated next to a bus carrying riot police. Of the victims, seven were police officers and four civilians

Three people were wounded as a result of a ferry crash at Istanbul’s Sirkeci wharf on June 7

4 detained after car bomb kills 11 in Istanbul

(CNN) Four people have been detained in connection with a car bomb attack targeting a police bus that killed 11 people Tuesday in Istanbul, Turkey’s …

Eleven killed in Istanbul car bomb explosion

(CNN) At least 11 people were killed — seven policemen and four civilians — and 36 injured when a car bomb targeted a police bus in the historic .

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