自殺爆撃機負傷させるs 22 people in attack on police watching over Istanbul square

By Mail Foreign Service
Updated: 15:48 BST, 31 October 2010

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A 自殺爆撃機 blew himself up 近づく police watching over Istanbul's main square today, 負傷させるing 22 people, 含むing 10 policemen, 公式の／役人s said.

T he テロリスト tried but failed to get into parked police 先頭s and 爆発させるd the 爆弾 just outside the 乗り物, Istanbul police 長，指導者 Huseyin Capkin said.

暴動 police are 駅／配置するd at Taksim Square in 事例／患者 of demonstrations.

Ten police officers and 12 passers-by were 負傷させるd in the attack, Istanbul's 知事 Huseyin Avni Mutlu said.

Turkish police forensic search next to a police bus with the remains of a suicide bomber on the ground after an explosion in Taksim Square

Turkish police 法廷の search next to a police bus with the remains of a 自殺爆撃機 on the ground after an 爆発 in Taksim Square

The suicide bomber killed himself and injured 15 people in an attack targetting a police checkpoint

The 自殺爆撃機 killed himself and 負傷させるd 15 people in a n attack targetting a police 検問所

Capkin said at least two of the 負傷させるd were in serious 条件.

'The 出来事/事件 is under 調査. It's a 自殺爆破,' Capkin told reporters at the scene, 追加するing that the 爆撃機 had died at the scene.

Capkin said 爆弾 squads discovered more 装置s at the scene and were working to 信管を取り除く them.

There was no 即座の責任／義務（人命などを）奪う，主張する for the attack, which occurred as the city was 準備するing to 持つ／拘留する共和国 Day parades that were 初めは planned for Friday but were 延期するd 予定 to 強い雨.

Kurdish 反逆者／反逆するs fighting for 自治 in Turkey's おもに Kurdish southeast have carried out 自殺爆破s in the past, as have 過激な左派の（人） groups and Islamic 交戦的なs.

Injured people sit on the pavement after the suicide bomber blew himself up in the centre of Istanbul

負傷させるd people sit on the pavement after the 自殺爆撃機 blew himself up in the centre of Istanbul

Grisly: Police officers walk past part of the suicide bomber's body. The attacker appeared to be in his early twenties

Grisly: Police officers walk past part of the 自殺爆撃機's 団体／死体. The 攻撃者 appeared to be in his 早期に twenties

A 片側だけの停戦発表するd by the Kurdish 反逆者／反逆するs is about to end.

Police 調印（する）d off all roads 主要な to the square and 法廷の teams in blue coveralls were walking in line, 徹底的に捜すing the area for pieces of 破片 and other 証拠.

Some were seen walking around the ledge of a statue at the square centre.

'It was a terrifying, very loud 爆発,' said Mehmet Toz who was in the square at the time of the 爆破.

'Everyone started to run around, people fell on the ground. There was panic, we couldn't make out what had happened.'

Muammer Ulutas, who 作品 at a cafe 近づく the square said a policeman 解雇する／砲火／射撃d four 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs of 発射s at the 自殺爆撃機 after he had blown himself up.

'He 解雇する／砲火／射撃d the 発射s at the 自殺爆撃機, I heard four 射撃s,' he said.

The 自殺爆撃機 was lying on the ground and appeared to be in his 早期に 20s, Ulutas said.

There have been two previous 自殺爆弾 attacks on police 近づく Taksim, in 1999 and 2001, the 明言する／公表する-run Anatolia news 機関報告（する）／憶測d.

The first 負傷させるd three police officers and 10 other people. The second killed two police officers.