Breaking: Explosion at Turkish Resort
Charles Johnson
Sun Jun 25, 2006 at 8:52 am PDT • Views: 215
Explosion rocks Turkish resort: agency.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An explosion rocked a tourist area near the southern Turkish resort of Antalya and injured some people, state-run Anatolian news agency reported on Sunday.
The cause of the explosion was not known. Kurdish separatists, leftist and Islamist militants have all carried out bomb attacks in Turkey in the past.
Police said they had no immediate information on the blast.
UPDATE at 6/25/06 9:44:39 am:
Turkish resort blast kills four.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A blast probably caused by an exploding gas canister at a popular Turkish tourist area killed four people, including a Norwegian and a Ukrainian, and injured about 25 on Sunday, CNN Turk television said.
It was unclear whether the explosion was an accident.
Police said the blast happened in a park surrounding the Manavgat waterfall about 100 km (60 miles) to the east of the city of Antalya, Turkey’s largest resort area.
The Mediterranean resort of Antalya is popular with tourists from western Europe and Russia.
Manavgat Mayor Zeynel Senol told the state-run Anatolian news agency the explosion happened about 5:40 pm and that the cause of the explosion was not clear.
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