Ankara: Turkiye’s government said on Sunday that two terrorists carried out a bomb attack in front of the Interior Ministry buildings in Ankara, adding one of them died in the explosion and the other was “neutralised” by authorities there.
“Two terrorists, who arrived in a light commercial vehicle in front of the gate of the General Directorate of Security, carried out a bomb attack. One of the terrorists blew himself up,” wrote Ali Yerlikaya, the minister, on X.
Police also announced they would carry out controlled explosions for “suspicious package incidents” in other parts of Ankara.
There was no immediate information on the assailants. Kurdish and far-left militant groups as well as the Islamic State (IS) group have carried out deadly attacks throughout the country in the past.
The bombing, the first to hit Ankara in a number of years, comes almost a year after six people were killed and 81 wounded in an explosion in a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul on November 13, 2022.