{"id":4193,"date":"2016-06-29T11:58:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T11:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2016-06-29T11:58:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T11:58:44","slug":"at-least-41-dead-and-200-injured-in-istanbul-airport-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/at-least-41-dead-and-200-injured-in-istanbul-airport-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 41 dead and 200 injured in Istanbul airport attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

41 dead and 239 injured in horrific suicide bombings in Turkey’s biggest and busiest airports<\/strong><\/p>\n

ISTANBUL (Turkey) \u2014\u00a0At least 41 people were killed and 239 injured on Tuesday in a triple suicide bombing and gun attack at Istanbul\u2019s main Atat\u00fcrk airport, Turkish officials have confirmed.<\/p>\n

Police fired shots to try to stop two of the attackers just before they reached a security checkpoint at the arrivals hall at Ataturk airport, Europe\u2019s third-busiest, but they blew themselves up.<\/p>\n

Istanbul governor\u2019s office reports that the death toll has risen to 41, with 239 wounded. Among the victims were\u00a023 Turkish citizens and 13 foreign nationals.\u00a0More than 100 injured people have been discharged from hospital.<\/p>\n

A Turkish official reports that the foreigners killed in the Istanbul attacks include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 One Chinese national
\n\u2022 One Jordanian
\n\u2022 One Tunisian
\n\u2022 One Uzbek
\n\u2022 One Iranian
\n\u2022 One Ukrainian
\n\u2022 Five Saudis
\n\u2022 Two Iraqis<\/p>\n

Videos on social media showed panicked passengers amid sounds of gunfire and the arrival of ambulances. Roads around the airport were sealed off to regular traffic.\u00a0Pictures posted on social media from the site showed wounded people lying on the ground inside and outside one of the terminal buildings.<\/p>\n

\"People<\/a>

People take cover during the attack on Ataturk Airport in Istanbul. Credit: Laurence Cameron\/Storyful<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

There were no immediate claims of responsibility, but Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said it appeared to have been an attack by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) militants.<\/p>\n

“There is initial evidence that each of the three suicide bombers blew themselves up after opening fire,” he told reporters at the airport.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the attack aimed to undermine Turkey, and called for a joint international anti-terror \u201cfight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf states, as all humanity, fail to join forces and wage a joint fight against terrorist organisations, all the possibilities that we dread in our minds will come true one by one,\u201d Erdogan said.<\/p>\n

Witnesses described a scene of chaos. Two South African tourists, Paul and Susie Roos from Cape Town, were at the airport to fly home and were shaken by what they witnessed.<\/p>\n

\u2018He was just firing at anyone coming in front of him. He was wearing all black. His face was not masked. I was 50 metres away from him, we ducked behind a counter but I stood up and watched him. Two explosions went off shortly after one another. By that time he had stopped shooting,\u2019 Roos said.<\/p>\n

A taxi driver, named as Fatih told, \u2018There were the sounds of gunfire, it was like thunder, then there was a fireball everywhere, my front window blew out, the car in front of me was turned into scrap.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Several<\/a>

<\/em> Several ambulances and medics rushed to the Istanbul Ataturk Airport after <\/em>terror attack.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

41 dead and 239 injured in horrific suicide bombings in Turkey’s biggest and busiest airports ISTANBUL (Turkey) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[214,357,11,82],"class_list":["post-4193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-bombing","tag-europe","tag-terrorism","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/istanbul-attack1.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-15D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}