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FUNERALS HELD
FOR VICTIMS OF TERROR ATTACK
IN TURKISH BORDER TOWN
FUNERALS were held Tuesday for victims of a blast that ripped through a rally in Davutoglu said the government would not hesitate in taking action in response to
the bombing, which he suggested was in revenge for the role Turkey is playing in
the Turkish border town of Suruc a day earlier -- an attack suspected to have been the war on terror.
carried out by an ISIS suicide bomber.
At least 31 people were killed in the explosion -- one of the deadliest terrorist at- There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, which struck a gather-
tacks to rock the country in years. At least 100 others were wounded, provincial ing of mostly Kurdish activists calling for more help to rebuild Kobani. The explosion
Gov. Izzettin Kucuk told Turkish media. occurred at midday at the Amara Cultural Park in Suruc, where an activist group
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a news conference Tuesday that had gathered.
“one suspect has been identified” and that all that person’s “links domestically and Photos and video from the scene show bodies strewn around a park and dazed
internationally are being investigated.” people at the blast site while emergency teams rush to aid victims.
“Right now links to ISIS and it being a suicide bomber has gained probability,” he “Kids were screaming, everyone was screaming and running,” eyewitness Erhan
said. “We expect the investigation to be completed as soon as possible.” Subasi said. “Everyone was in a panic but trying to help.”People’s faces were blown
Davutoglu on Monday described ISIS as “not just a threat to Syria but to Turkey off, arms scattered. ... You could smell burned bodies.”
as well.” The Kurdish and Syrian rebel forces eventually succeeded in driving ISIS out of the
He urged solidarity among the Turkish people, saying the attack was not against strategic stronghold, but the Syrian town was left in ruins.
any one part of the country but “against all of us.”
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