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MNA International Desk: At least 50 people have been killed and 94 more injured in a blast at wedding ceremony in Turkey’s southeastern province of Gaziantep, near the Syria border.
A health ministry official told to news agency that 94 people were injured, with 17 in a serious condition.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a statement early Sunday saying that ISIS extremists were “the most likely perpetrator of the Gaziantep attack.”
Turkey has been rocked by a wave of attacks in the past year that have either been claimed by Kurdish militants linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party — known by its acronym PKK — or were blamed on ISIS. In June, suspected ISIS militants attacked Istanbul’s main airport with guns and bombs, killing 44 people.
Turkey is also reeling from a failed coup last month that aimed to topple the government of Mr. Erdogan and left at least 240 people dead. Mr. Erdogan said that there was no difference between the various terrorist organizations that are attacking the country.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim condemned the wedding attack and vowed to continue to fight terrorist groups. “No matter what this treacherous terror organization is called, we as the people, the state and the government will pursue our determined struggle against it,” he said.
