At least 10 foreigners killed, 15 wounded in suicide bombing on central Istanbul square

Tuesday, January 12, 2016
By Paul Martin

RT.com
12 Jan, 2016

A suicide bomber has carried out an attack in central Istanbul, killing at least 10 foreigners, mostly German tourists, and injuring 15 more, according to officials. Police said the suspect was of Saudi Arabian origin.
At least, eight Germans were killed and nine seriously injured in the Istanbul attack, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German Foreign Minister, said.

“It has been years since we were hit by terror as hard as we have been hit now in Istanbul,” Steinmeier is cited as saying by Reuters.

One more injured is Norwegian and another one is Peruvian, according to Dogan news agency. Norway’s Foreign Ministry later confirmed that one Norwegian citizen was injured in the blast and is receiving treatment at a local hospital.

“It’s not a life-threatening injury,” Norwegian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Guri Solberg said.

Peru’s Foreign Ministry also confirmed that one Peruvian man was killed and a Peruvian woman wounded in the suicide bombing.

There was a group of German tourists on the square at the time of the blasts, an official from a tour company told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

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