A Turkish deputy prime minister says officials suspect a bomb caused a blast that wounded 15 in the capital.
Bulent Arinc says “there is information that a bomb was planted” on the vehicle that exploded in the downtown Kizilay district on Tuesday.
Besir Atalay, another deputy prime minister, says 15 people were wounded in the blast.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Kurdish, leftist and Islamist militants have claimed previous bomb attacks in Turkish cities. This is a breaking news
Earlier today it was reported that an explosion across a secondary school injured 10 people and set several vehicles on fire in the Turkish capital on Tuesday, an official said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blast in downtown Kizilay district but a local mayor, Bulent Tanik, said an eyewitness told them that someone threw a burning gas canister onto the vehicles from a nearby building.
“The investigation is underway,” Tanik said. “If true, that canister might have triggered the blast of a liquefied petroleum gas tank on a vehicle.”
One of the vehicles was totally burnt down and four others were also damaged, television images showed.
NTV television said 10 people were hospitalized. Tanik said three people were seriously injured and some of them might have lost their limbs.
The blast occurred across the school but no student was harmed, Tanik said.
The injured were initially treated in the school yard by people in the street before medics rushed to the scene and whisked them away to hospitals, NTV television said.
Interior Minister Besir Atalay inspected the scene but police did not yet make a statement.
Kurdish, leftist and Islamic militants have carried out bomb attacks in Turkey in the past.
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