Istanbul

******* **** at ****** station in popular Istanbul tourist area

ISTANBUL – ******* authorities say a female ******* ****** blew herself up in Istanbul Tuesday, injuring two policemen.

Istanbul governor Vasip Sahin said the woman entered a ****** station and reported a missing wallet before detonating a ****. The ****** occurred in the Sultan Ahmet district, a popular tourist destination.

It is the second ****** on ****** in a week in Istanbul. On Thursday, ****** subdued a man after he threw grenades and ***** a ****** at officers near the offices of the prime minister.

The leftist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front, or DHKP-C, said it carried out the Thursday ******.

Sahin said that ****** are still trying to identify the woman who **** in Tuesday’s ******.

“She spoke in English, entered (the ****** station) on the pretext that she had lost her wallet,” he said.






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