Witnesses have described the horror of the moment three attackers opened fire and blew themselves up at Turkey’s main airport in Istanbul, killing at least 36 people and injuring at least 90.
Officials say the men, wearing suicide vests, sprayed gunshots through Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, before detonating their suicide vests.
A woman told AFP she can’t find her sister after the attack.
“Somebody came and shot at us and then my sister was running,” Otfah Mohamed Abdullah said.
“I don’t know which way she was running and after that I was falling down. I was on the ground till he finished… I can’t find my sister.”
The death toll is feared to rise above 50.
South African man Paul Roos told Reuters he was just 50 metres away when one of the attackers started “randomly firing at anyone coming in front of him”.
“He was wearing all black. His face was not masked… We ducked behind a counter but I stood up and watched him. Two explosions went off shortly after one another.
“By that time he had stopped shooting. He turned around and started coming towards us. He was holding his gun inside his jacket.
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Terrorism/asymmetric warfare/jihad - whatever you want to call it will always be a part of islam to achieve political objectives. RIP for those lost.
How many christian refugees from christian majority countries migrate to islamic majority countries these days?
The iraq invasion was the work of a cowboy redneck from texas and was an incredibly bad decision. They did not do it for christianity.
This is so hard to reconcile. I visited Istanbul just over 2 years ago and found a vibrant, magnificent city, who's people were hard working and very friendly. It wasn't long ago it was the number 1 city for tourists to visit and it was obvious why. Now it's being undermined and trashed by a few....the usual suspects...when will it stop.