Epress.am News from Armenia
Turkish authorities are searching for the source of a powerful blast that injured several people in downtown Ankara on Tuesday, Deutsche-Welle reports.
There were conflicting reports about whether or not anyone had been killed. Some media reports said two people had died, while a local mayor said nobody was dead but three people were seriously wounded.
Officials suspect a bomb caused the explosion, which blew out shop windows and set cars ablaze.
The blast occurred in front of the Cankaya local administrator’s office near Ankara’s Kizilay Square, according to the Anatolia news agency.
A local mayor, Bulent Tanik, said an eyewitness told him that someone threw a burning gas canister onto the vehicles from a nearby building.
“The investigation is underway,” said Tanik. “If true, that canister might have triggered the blast of a liquefied petroleum gas tank on a vehicle.”
The explosion took place across the street from a secondary school, but none of the students were harmed, he added.