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11 suspects arrested over attack at Istanbul Airport

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11 suspects arrested over attack at Istanbul Airport

Turkish police have arrested 11 people in connection with the terrorist attack at the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul which claimed the lives of 44 people in a gun and bomb offensive on Tuesday.

Reports say the arrested suspects (all foreigners) were fingered to be members of an Islamic State cell in Istanbul and are linked to the suicide bombers who staged the attack this week at Istanbul’s main airport.

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The arrests in the dawn raid, by a counter-terror police squad in the Basaksehir district on the European side of the city, brought the number of people detained in the investigation to 24, it said.

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