Police pursued a vehicle thought to be carrying explosives to the house, where 7 or 8 Syrian nationals were believed to be sheltering, and raided it, the security sources said. Several of the seven people hospitalised were police officers, the hospital sources said. Turkey launched an incursion into Syria in August in support of Syrian rebels to try to push Islamic State from its border. A suicide bomber suspected of links to Islamic State killed more than 50 people, many of them children, at a Kurdish wedding in Gaziantep in August. It was the latest in a series of attacks by the radical Islamists on Turkish soil.

Source: Standard Digital October 16, 2016 11:03 UTC