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Death toll rises to 37 in Ankara bomb blast
Forensic officers at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Ankara, Turkey which killed 37 people. – Reuters pic, March 14, 2016.The death toll in a car bomb attack in the Turkish capital Ankara has risen to 37 people, Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said today, adding that 71 people were still being treated in hospital.
Of those in hospital, 15 were in serious condition, he told reporters.
Sunday's bombing was the second such attack in the administrative heart of the city in under a month and two senior security officials told Reuters initial findings suggested the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group was responsible. – Reuters, March 14, 2016.
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