July 4, 2016
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Islamic State suspected after suicide bombers kill 41 at Istanbul airport
ISTANBUL | BY AYLA JEAN YACKLEY AND HUMEYRA PAMUK
Business | Wed Jun 29, 2016 6:38pm EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-blast-idUSKCN0ZE2J1
Three bombers opened fire to create panic outside the airport on Tuesday, 28 June (2016) night, before two of them got inside and blew themselves up. Two hundred thirty-nine people were wounded, officials said, giving a full account of the bloodshed.
Reuters – Islamic State suspected in deadly Istanbul airport attack (00:56)
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Turkey pointed the finger at Islamic State on Wednesday for a triple suicide bombing and gun attack that killed 41 people at Istanbul’s main airport, and President Tayyip Erdogan called it a turning point in the global fight against terrorism.
In the deadliest of a series of suicide bombings this year in Turkey, the attackers struck the busy airport, a symbol of Istanbul’s role as the Muslim world’s most open and cosmopolitan city, a crossroads between Europe and Asia.
Three bombers opened fire to create panic outside the airport on Tuesday, 28 June (2016) night, before two of them got inside and blew themselves up. Two hundred thirty-nine people were wounded, officials said, giving a full account of the bloodshed.
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UPDATE THURSDAY JUNE 30, 2016
Jewish girl, 13, stabbed to death in West Bank bedroom was U.S. citizen
Published June 30, 2016
Two Bombings in Baghdad Shopping Districts Kill at Least 200 At least 25 were children
By Daniel Politi – The Slatest YOUR NEWS COMPANION JULY 3 2016 8:32 AM
The death toll from the two bombings that hit Baghdad overnight Saturday has increased to at least 130 people as 125 were killed in central Baghdad, according to Iraqi police. At least 25 children were killed in the blasts, reports CNN.
Update on July 4 at 1:15 p.m.: On Monday afternoon, rescue workers were still searching and pulling bodies from the rubble of the attack that killed at least 200 people, according to a local official.
Update at 10:10 a.m.: The death toll from the two bombings that hit Baghdad overnight Saturday has increased to at least 130 people as 125 were killed in central Baghdad, according to Iraqi police. At least 25 children were killed in the blasts, reports CNN.
Original post: The Iraqi capital was once again the scene of carnage and tragedy over the weekend when two separate bombs overnight on Saturday killed at least 91 people. The deadliest blast took place when a refrigerator truck packed with explosives blew up in the busy shopping district of Karada in the center of Baghdad around midnight on Saturday and killed at least 86 people while injuring 170. The attack took place at the time when families were out in the streets after breaking their daylight fast for the holy month of Ramadan, which ends this week. Many of the dead were children, according to witnesses, and officials warned the death toll would likely rise as more bodies could be lying under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
