Istanbul: 2 women open fire, hurl grenades at Turkish police bus

March 03, 2016 17:11

Two women opened fire and threw a grenade at a Turkish police bus as it arrived at a station in an Istanbul suburb, footage from the Dogan news agency showed. Television stations said there were no casualties.

One of the women threw a grenade and the other opened fire with what appeared to be a machine gun as the riot police bus drove towards the station entrance in the Bayrampasa district of Turkey's biggest city, the footage showed. Police returned fire, injuring one of the women, before tracking them to a nearby building.

Officials later reported that both women had been killed in the special forces raid, while one police officer was wounded in the arm.

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