By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-10-23 15:25:39 | Updated at 2024-10-23 18:01:45
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Three people were killed and 14 others wounded in an attack on a top Turkish defence firm near Ankara, Turkey’s interior minister said Wednesday.
“We have three martyrs and 14 injured in the attack,” Ali Yerlikaya wrote on X, also saying “two terrorists were neutralised” in the incident at the headquarters of state-run Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) which he earlier described as a “terrorist attack”.
Local media broadcast footage showing clouds of smoke and a large fire raging at the site in Kahramankazan, a small town some 40km (25 miles) north of Ankara.
Haberturk TV said there was an ongoing “hostage situation” without giving further details, while the private NTV television spoke of gunshots after the blast, which took place around 4pm.
There was no immediate claim for the attack but the justice minister said an investigation had been opened.
NTV spoke of a suicide attack, saying “a group of terrorists” had burst into TAI’s headquarters and one of them blew themself up.
