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2015-04-01
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A woman carrying guns and hand grenades has been shot dead by Turkish police.
The woman threw grenades into Istanbul’s police headquarters. One exploded, according to Turkey’s state news agency Anadolu, in what is the third attack on an official building in two days.
She and her male accomplice had both tried to attack the police building.
pic via Turkish media: Attack on Istanbul Police HQ, one attacker killed
pic.twitter.com/XuKhy3BAyc— Khalid Khan™ (@khalidkhan787) April 1, 2015
Surrounding streets in the central neighbourhood of Aksaray were cordoned off.
In a separate incident, police had earlier detained an armed man after he went into the Istanbul office of the ruling AK Party. He hung a Turkish flag with a sword emblem added from the window.
Wednesday’s (April 1) incidents come just one day after two militants took an Istanbul prosecutor hostage in his office. All three died after police stormed the building to release him.
Euronews correspondent Bora Bayrakta
The woman threw grenades into Istanbul’s police headquarters. One exploded, according to Turkey’s state news agency Anadolu, in what is the third attack on an official building in two days.
She and her male accomplice had both tried to attack the police building.
pic via Turkish media: Attack on Istanbul Police HQ, one attacker killed
pic.twitter.com/XuKhy3BAyc— Khalid Khan™ (@khalidkhan787) April 1, 2015
Surrounding streets in the central neighbourhood of Aksaray were cordoned off.
In a separate incident, police had earlier detained an armed man after he went into the Istanbul office of the ruling AK Party. He hung a Turkish flag with a sword emblem added from the window.
Wednesday’s (April 1) incidents come just one day after two militants took an Istanbul prosecutor hostage in his office. All three died after police stormed the building to release him.
Euronews correspondent Bora Bayrakta
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