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28 dead as deadly explosion rocks Ankara in Turkey

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The Turkish city of Ankara was rocked by a deadly explosion which left at least 28 people dead and 61 other wounded when a car bomb targeted travelling military personnel.
According to Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Gaziantep, the explosion occurred when a vehicle conveying Turkish military personnel was stopped in traffic.

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After the blast, emergency officials were seen attending to the wounded who were later sent to the hospital while the bodies of the dead were moved to a nearby morgue.
Moments after the blast, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey immediately called for an emergency meeting with top security officials in Ankara.

“We will continue our fight against the pawns that carry out such attacks, which know no moral or humanitarian bounds, and the forces behind them with more determination every day,” Erdogan said in a statement.

Turkish government say they are treating the incident as a “terrorist” attack though no group has yet claimed responsibility for the deadly explosion.

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