A suicide bomber is believed to have triggered a blast which ripped through a minibus in a western Turkish resort on Saturday, killing four people and injuring 14, officials and news reports said. There were no immediate claims of responsibility.
Television footage of the scene showed the top of the minibus had been blown off by the force of the blast, which occurred around 10:30 a.m. (0730 GMT) as the vehicle traveled past a square in the town of Kusadasi on the way to a beach, local officials said. Kusadasi, some 70 km (45 miles) from the port city of Izmir, is popular with Turkish and foreign tourists, and officials said foreign nationals may have been on the bus.
The NTV news channel said authorities believed a female suicide bomber was killed in the attack and police suspected plastic explosives were used. "There is no clear information at the moment but we are considering all possibilities," local administrator Ali Baris told Reuters when asked whether a suicide bomber had caused the explosion. Four people were killed and 14 were injured in the blast, Baris said. |