By The New York Times (World News) | Created at 2024-10-23 14:25:09 | Updated at 2024-10-23 16:22:45
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Surveillance footage showed two attackers, a man and a woman, with backpacks and rifles and a body lying on the pavement outside.
Oct. 23, 2024, 10:18 a.m. ET
Gunmen assaulted the headquarters of Turkey’s state-run aerospace company in the capital Ankara on Wednesday in what Turkish officials called a “terrorist attack.”
In a social media post, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya confirmed the attack on Turkish Aerospace Industries and said it had caused a number of dead and wounded.
Anil Sahin, a defense industry reporter, told Haberturk, a Turkish news network, that two militants had come to company’s headquarters in a taxi. One blew himself up while the other fired at the complex’s security guards.
A video from the scene, which aired on Turkish television networks, showed gray smoke from what appeared to be an explosion and a man who appeared to be an attacker running with an assault rifle. Images from surveillance cameras inside a building showed two attackers, a man and a woman, with backpacks and rifles near the entrance and a body lying on the pavement outside.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but Turkey has faced similar attacks in recent years from Kurdish separatists and jihadists from the Islamic State.
