{"id":128465,"date":"2011-09-20T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T10:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=128465"},"modified":"2011-09-20T15:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T10:52:12","slug":"powerful-blast-rocks-downtown-ankara-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/20\/powerful-blast-rocks-downtown-ankara-video.html","title":{"rendered":"Powerful Blast Rocks Downtown Ankara (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish authorities are searching for the source of a\u00a0powerful blast that\u00a0injured several\u00a0people in downtown Ankara on Tuesday, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,,15401695,00.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Deutsche-Welle reports<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Officials suspect a bomb caused the explosion, which blew out shop windows and set cars ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>The blast occurred in front of the Cankaya local administrator&#8217;s office\u00a0near Ankara&#8217;s Kizilay Square, according to the Anatolia news agency.<\/p>\n<p>A local mayor, Bulent Tanik, said an eyewitness told him that someone threw a burning gas canister onto the vehicles from a nearby building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The investigation is underway,&#8221; said Tanik. &#8220;If true, that canister might have triggered the blast of a liquefied petroleum gas tank on a vehicle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The explosion took place across the street from a secondary school, but none of the students were harmed, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8fHPrmxtUVk?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2opTaCh0TgQ?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish authorities are searching for the source of a powerful blast that injured several people in downtown Ankara on&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14786,11171,18566,11172,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}