INSTANBUL ATTACK: 10 KILLED AND SCORES INJURED IN THE EXPLOSIONS

The Latest on the explosions at Istanbul's Ataturk airport (all times local): 11:00 p.m. A Turkish official says two attackers have blown themselves up at Istanbul's Ataturk airport after police fire at them. Turkish media quoted Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag as saying 10 people were killed in the attack on Tuesday.


 Turkey's state-run news agency quoted Bekir Bozdag as saying: "According to the information I was given, a terrorist at the international terminal entrance first opened fire with a Kalashnikov and then blew himself up. We have around 10 martyrs (dead) and around 20 wounded."

 The official said the attackers detonated the explosives at the entrance of the international terminal before entering the x-ray security check. Turkish airports have security checks at both at the entrance of terminal buildings and then later before entry to departure gates.

--> Reuters report:


 Television footage showed ambulances rushing to the scene. One witness told CNN Turk that gunfire was heard from the car park at the airport. Taxis were ferrying wounded people from the airport, the witness said. Authorities halted the takeoff of scheduled flights from the airport and passengers were transferred to hotels, a Turkish Airlines official said.


 Earlier an airport official said some flights to the airport had been diverted. Turkey has suffered a spate of bombings this year, including two suicide attacks in tourist areas of Istanbul blamed on Islamic State, and two car bombings in the capital, Ankara, which were claimed by a Kurdish militant group.


 In the most recent attack, a car bomb ripped through a police bus in central Istanbul during the morning rush hour, killing 11 people and wounding 36 near the main tourist district, a major university and the mayor's office.


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