Two foreign nationals have been detained by Turkish police at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, following their suspected connection to the attack on a night club on New Year’s Eve, reports said on Tuesday.
The recently reported arrests bring the total number of apprehended suspects to fourteen. Earlier on Tuesday, the Turkish media reported that twelve people had been detained as part of the ongoing manhunt.
Hurriyet Daily News has reported that new details on the attacker say he entered Turkey through Syria.
The date when he arrived in Turkey is unknown, but he was in the Central Anatolian province of Konya on November 22, 2016, before heading to Istanbul to carry out the attack on the Reina night club, which claimed the lives of 39 people.
According to the investigation, the attacker arrived in Konya with his wife and two children and hired a house there. His family members, whose identities remain hidden, have been detained by police.
“I learned about the attack from the TV. I didn’t know that my husband was an ISIL militant, let alone a sympathizer,” his wife reportedly said in her testimony to authorities.
Meanwhile, new details continue to emerge regarding the attack, with daily Habert?rk releasing new footage of how the attacker arrived at the scene.
In the footage he can be seen with his backpack and a cigarette getting into a taxi at 11:58pm from the Zeytinburnu district of Istanbul to head to Reina.
The so called Islamic state has said that it was behind the attack in Istanbul.
Source: RT
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