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Turkey blames IS for Istanbul attack

| | Mar 21, 2016, at 01:59 am
Istanbul, Mar 20 (IBNS) The suicide bomber, who has killed four people during the attack in Turkish city of Istanbul on Saturday, is connected to militant group Islamic State, media reports said.

Country's interior minister Efken Ala named the attacker as Mehmet Ozturk.

"We have determined that Mehmet Ozturk, born in 1992 in Gaziantep, carried out the heinous attack on Saturday in Istanbul,"Ala was quoted as saying by BBC.

"It has been established that he is a member of Daesh," he said.

At least four people were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Turkish city Istanbul on Saturday
 

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