Twenty-seven people were killed and 75 were inured during an attack in the Turkish capital of Ankara, the province’s governor told NBC News.
The blast, which local media attributed to a car bomb, occurred on the city’s main boulevard, Ataturk Bulvari, close to Ankara’s main square, Kizilay.
The private NTV news channel said a car, believed to be laden with explosives, detonated close to a bus.
Several vehicles then caught fire, the station said. The area is close to government offices, including ministries.
The deadly explosion — the third in the city in five months — came just three weeks after a suicide car bombing in the capital targeted buses carrying military personnel, killing 29 people.
A Kurdish militant group which is an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, claimed responsibility for the Feb. 17 attack.
This story first appeared on NBCNews.com.
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Aziz Akyavas