Turkey bombing: Female suicide attacker hits Istanbul police station
Posted on AllSides January 6th, 2015
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A female suicide bomber has blown herself up in the Turkish city of Istanbul, killing one police officer and injuring another, reports say.
She targeted a police station in the tourist hub of Sultanahmet, near the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia museum.
The woman spoke English with "a thick accent", but her nationality and identity remained unknown, Istanbul governor Vasip Sahin told Turkish TV.
No group has yet said it was behind the attack, the second on police in a week.
Police arrested a man who threw grenades and fired...
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