New CCTV Footage Shows Moment Of Deadly Istanbul Suicide Attack

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Update: Here is the latest CCTV footage of the attack. Caution: graphic.

For the fourth time this year and the second time in seven days, one of Turkey’s major cities has been hit with a deadly suicide bombing.
Just six days after an explosion ripped through a transit hub in Ankara’s Kizilay neighborhood killing 34 people and wounding more than 100, a bustling shopping street in Istanbul was shaken by a powerful blast on Saturday.
The death toll now stands at 5 and frankly, it probably would have been much, much worse had the blast come later in the day. ‘The attack took place on Istiklal Caddesi, a pedestrian street that was relatively quiet Saturday morning but is usually thronged with shoppers, strollers and buskers later in the day,’ AFP reports. ‘The street, which adjoins Taksim Square in the European part of the city, was evacuated after the attack.’


This post was published at Zero Hedge on 03/19/2016.