The moment of attack on Turkey's Parliament (VIDEO)

The moment of attack on Turkey's Parliament (VIDEO)

The powerful explosion that occurred this morning in Ankara, near the Turkish Parliament, where the gathering for the new parliamentary mandate would then begin, has been characterised by the Turkish Interior Ministry as “terrorist attacks”, according to the AFP correspondent. The Turkish Interior Ministry says a suicide bomber exploded an explosive vehicle in the Turkish capital, saying [...]

The powerful explosion that occurred this morning in Ankara, near the Turkish Parliament, where the gathering for the new parliamentary mandate would then begin, has been characterised by the Turkish Interior Ministry as “terrorist attacks”, according to the AFP correspondent.

Turkey's Interior Ministry says one suicide bomber exploded an explosive vehicle in the Turkish capital, wounding 2 police officers, while kamikaz and another assailant are also dead.

Look at the moment of the explosion:

Concretically, Interior Minister Ali Gerlikaya, in a statement in his account on social networks, says: “around 09:30, 2 terrorists have directed an easy commercial vehicle in front of the ministry General Security Directorate entrance. Internal and carried out a bomb attack. One of the terrorists set himself on fire and the other terrorist neutralized.

During the shooting, two effective officers of our police were easily injured. I wish our heroes a quick recovery.

Our war will continue indefinitely until the last terrorist is neutralised”, he said.

Several police vehicles and ambulances have gone to the scene. After the panic, the flow on several roads has been interrupted and the noise of ambulances streaming to the area is heard.

According to CNN TATK, the explosion occurred in a grey commercial vehicle. It is also learned that gunshots were heard after the explosion.

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