Blast near Turkey's ruling party HQ injures 10

01.03.2012

A remote control bomb wounded 10 police officers near the Istanbul headquarters of Turkey's ruling AK Party, Turkish police said. "There are wounded people, many ambulances are coming here after the explosion," a witness told.

"It was a very strong explosion like an earthquake," another witness told.

Sadi Dinleyici, spokesman of the Independent Industrialists and Businessmen's Association (MUSIAD), whose headquarters are next to the AK Party building, told: "We were afraid the bomb had hit our building because the blast was so loud, windows were broken and the wounded police officers were given first aid in our building."

Istanbul police chief Huseyin Capkin said the blast was caused by a remote-controlled bomb on a motorcycle.