{"id":4184,"date":"2016-06-07T18:44:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T10:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/07\/rush-hour-car-bomb-attack-targeting-police-kills-11-in-istanbul\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T18:44:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T10:44:45","slug":"rush-hour-car-bomb-attack-targeting-police-kills-11-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/07\/rush-hour-car-bomb-attack-targeting-police-kills-11-in-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush-hour car bomb attack targeting police kills 11 in Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ISTANBUL<\/span>\u00a0\u2014 A rush-hour car bomb attack targeting a bus carrying riot police killed 11 people and wounded 36 others Tuesday, Istanbul’s governor said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking at the scene of the blast in the district of Beyazit, Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin said the dead included seven police officers and four civilians. At least three of the wounded were in serious condition.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Car bomb in southern Turkey kills policeman and leaves 13 wounded<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The explosion was caused by a bomb placed inside a car and was detonated as the police vehicle was passing by, Sahin said.<\/p>\n

The police bus was overturned from the force of the blast which also damaged nearby buildings, including a hotel whose entrance appeared gutted and windows were blown out. The hotel however, was closed and had no guests. Several cars were also wrecked. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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ISTANBUL\u00a0\u2014 A rush-hour car bomb attack targeting a bus carrying riot police killed 11 people and wounded 36 others Tuesday, Istanbul’s governor said. Speaking at the scene of the blast in the district of Beyazit, Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin said … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2602,940,939,1112],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-car-bomb","tag-istanbul","tag-turkey","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}