ISTANBUL: Two explosions hit the Turkish city of Istanbul, killing at least 13 people and wounding 20 others late on Saturday, according to authorities.
Al Jazeera TV quoted security sources as saying that 13 people were confirmed dead following the attack, with the death toll likely to rise. Earlier, Turkish authorities said about 20 police were wounded.
Witnesses said police were deployed and had cordoned off the area as smoke rose from the newly built Besiktas Stadium. They said gunfire could be heard in what appeared to have been an armed attack on police.
The private NTV channel said the target of the attack was a bus for riot police.
Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the wounded were police officers.
“It is thought to be a car bomb at a point where our special forces police were located, right after the match at the exit where Bursaspor fans exited, after the fans had left.” Soylu was quoted as saying by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency.
“We have no information on the number of dead. God willing we hope there won’t be any. The wounded are police.”
Images broadcast on television showed more than a dozen ambulances on a street hugging the stadium and a police helicopter flying overhead with its search lights on.
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Deaths reported in Istanbul after two blasts target police near stadium
Deaths reported in Istanbul after two blasts target police near stadium
Drones hit fuel tank at Oman port: state media
Muscat, Oman: Drones targeted an Omani port on Tuesday, hitting a fuel tank, state media said, as Iran presses its campaign against the Gulf in response to US and Israeli strikes.
“A security source reported that fuel tanks at the commercial port of Duqm were targeted by a number of drones, one of which hit a fuel tank. The resulting damage was contained without any human casualties,” the Oman News Agency said.
The attack is the second on the port in three days, as Iran broadens its targets in the Gulf.
Oman, which played a mediation role in talks between the US and Iran, has called for a ceasefire in the war.
On Sunday a worker was injured when two drones struck the same port. One hit accommodation for workers, while debris from the other landed near fuel tanks, the Oman News Agency said.
They were the first attacks on the sultanate since war broke out, with Oman facing strikes despite acting as a mediator between Iran and the United States just days prior to the conflict.
On Monday one person was killed in an attack on an oil tanker off the coast of the capital Muscat that caused an explosion and fire, authorities said.
The blast in the vessel’s main engine room killed one crew member, an Indian national.
“A security source reported that fuel tanks at the commercial port of Duqm were targeted by a number of drones, one of which hit a fuel tank. The resulting damage was contained without any human casualties,” the Oman News Agency said.
The attack is the second on the port in three days, as Iran broadens its targets in the Gulf.
Oman, which played a mediation role in talks between the US and Iran, has called for a ceasefire in the war.
On Sunday a worker was injured when two drones struck the same port. One hit accommodation for workers, while debris from the other landed near fuel tanks, the Oman News Agency said.
They were the first attacks on the sultanate since war broke out, with Oman facing strikes despite acting as a mediator between Iran and the United States just days prior to the conflict.
On Monday one person was killed in an attack on an oil tanker off the coast of the capital Muscat that caused an explosion and fire, authorities said.
The blast in the vessel’s main engine room killed one crew member, an Indian national.
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