Turkey’s Interior Minister said that the person, who planted the bomb on Istanbul’s Istiklal Street has been arrested
Istanbul: Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu on Monday said that the person, who planted the bomb on Istanbul’s Istiklal Street that killed at least six people, has been arrested, according to state-run Anadolu agency’s English-language Twitter account.
At least 81 people were injured when an explosion rocked the busy pedestrian street. Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay called it a “terrorist attack.”
“We consider it to be a terrorist act as a result of an attacker, whom we consider to be a woman, detonating the bomb,” CNN quoted Oktay as saying on Sunday.
The blast occurred on the pedestrian tourist street Istiklal on Sunday afternoon.
Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said that CCTV footage shows a woman sitting on a bench for more than 40 minutes and then getting up one or two minutes before the explosion, leaving a bag or plastic bag behind.
