WorldISTANBUL, REUTERS -A bomb attached to a motorbike exploded near a police station in southwest Istanbul on Thursday, wounding five people, one of them seriously, local officials said. The blast occurred in the Yenibosna neighbourhood, several kilometres from Istanbul Ataturk airport, the country's largest. “Five of our citizens have been wounded, one of them seriously, as a result of a motorbike with a bomb being detonated,” Istanbul governor Vasip Sahin wrote on Twitter. There have been a number of bomb attacks in Turkey in recent months, some blamed on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group and some on Islamic State. The last blast in Istanbul was in June, a month before an attempted coup to overthrow President Tayyip Erdogan's government, when 45 people were killed in a triple suicide bombing at the airport.

Source: Sunday Times October 06, 2016 13:41 UTC