Initial findings show IS carried out bomb attack: Turkey PM
July 20, 2015 23:54
Initial investigations indicate that Islamic State militants were responsible for a suicide bomb which killed 30 people in a town near the Syrian border today, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.
"Preliminary findings point to it being a suicide attack carried out by Daesh," Davutoglu told a news conference in Ankara, using an Arabic name for IS. "But we are not at a point to make a final judgement."
Davutoglu said the bomber had not yet been identified.
The bomb attack ripped through a cultural centre in Suruc, a townopposite the Syrian flashpoint of Kobane, leaving 30 people dead and 104 wounded.
Davutoglu denounced it as a "clearly terrorist attack" which targeted Turkey's peace, democracy and public order.
"This attack targets us all," he said, urging all political parties and people to demonstrate unity.
The pro-Kurdish HDP party blamed the Davutoglu government for a security and intelligence vacuum in relation to the bombing.
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