Death toll rises to eight in Istanbul attack

81 people have been injured, according to the latest balance. Turkish police have arrested 46 people, including the woman suspected of planting the bomb. Turkey points to the PKK as responsible.

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The Turkish Interior Minister, Suleyman Soylu, has raised eight people deceased in the terrorist attack perpetrated on the busy Istiklal avenue in Istanbul, in Turkey, according to the latest official balance. There is, moreover, 81 injuredtwo of them seriously.

According to the EITB Middle East correspondent, Mikel Ayestaran, on his Twitter account citing sources from Al Yazzeera, the minister has updated the death toll.

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As for the investigation, so far the Turkish police have detained 46 people for his alleged connection to the attack. Among them is the woman suspected of planting the bomb. It is a woman of syrian nationality, who responds to the name of Ahlam Albashir. Albashir was reportedly trained in Kobane (northern Syria) at a center of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Turkish police confirmed on Monday that the main suspect has confessed that “she was trained as a special intelligence agent by the PKK/PYD/YPG terrorist organization.”

However, at the moment no one has claimed authorship of the explosion.

According to Fahrettin Altun, spokesman for the Turkish Presidency, the attack “is a direct and indirect consequence of the support of some countries for terrorist groups.”

“The international community must pay attention. The terrorist attacks against our civilians are a direct and indirect consequence of the support of some countries to terrorist groups,” he pointed out. Ankara holds responsible USA, Sweden and Finland from supporting and financing the PKK.