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At least three people were killed and about 30 were injured in a powerful explosion in an industrial district in Ankara on Thursday, broadcaster NTV reported.
Fethi Yaşar, mayor of the Turkish capital’s Yenimahalle district, told broadcaster NTV that three people had died in the suburb of Ostim after the blast, the cause of which was not immediately known. The channel reported that rescuers were searching for five people trapped under the wreckage.
Initial suspicion for the blast fell on a gas leak, the channel said.
Television footage showed a multi-story building severely damaged, with walls and windows on the first two floors blown off, Agence France-Presse reported.
Broadcaster CNNTürk television said the blast ripped through a facility manufacturing generators.
Television pictures showed medics carrying injured people to ambulances as some men lay on the ground waiting for help.
Ostim is Ankara’s main industrial zone, where hundreds of workshops and factories are located, reports the Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review.