At least 50 people were killed and 94 others wounded late on Saturday in an attack on a wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey near the Syrian border, announced Gaziantep Governor Ali Yerlikaya.
“We condemn the traitors who organised and carried out this attack,” stated Yerlikaya.
Yerlikaya had earlier described the explosion as an “abhorrent terror attack“.
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, condemned the terrorist attack saying there is “no difference between the PKK, which martyred 70 security personnel last month, FETO as a perpetrator of the July 15 coup bid claiming 240 lives, and DAESH [Arabic acronym for so-called Islamic State,” reported Anadolu Agency.
“Those who try to divide our nation by provoking people’s ethnic sensitivities will not prevail,” he added.
WEDDING PARTY
Ambulances raced to the scene in the Akdere neighbourhood, Sahinbey district, and video footage from CNN Turk showed police and emergency service workers rushing through packed streets in the city.
The attack appeared to have hit when a large group of people from a wedding party took to the streets in celebration, one security source said, reported Anadolu Agency.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
The blast in Gaziantep came moments after Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim vowed Ankara would play a “more active” role in the next six months in efforts to solve the five-year Syrian civil war.
Gaziantep is just north of the Syrian border and has become a major hub for Syrians fleeing the civil war in their country.
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