A suicide bomber aged between 12 and 14 carried out the attack on a wedding party in the Turkish city of Gaziantep on Saturday that killed at least 51 people, the president said.Read more here.
The attack was the deadliest in a series of bombings in Turkey this year, and President Tayyip Erdogan said Islamic State was likely behind it.
"Initial evidence suggests it was a Daesh attack," Erdogan said in Istanbul on Sunday, using an Arabic name for the hardline Sunni Islamist group. He said 69 people were in hospital and 17 were "heavily injured".
A destroyed suicide vest was found at the blast site, officials said.
Sunday, August 21, 2016
12-14-year-old kills over 51 people at a wedding party in Turkey (suspected ISIS involvement)
Osman Orsal and Umit Ozdal report for Yahoo News,
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