• 2 Reported Dead in Blast Near U.S. Embassy in Turkey: A suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in the Turkish capital on Friday and at least two people are dead, a police official said. An Associated Press journalist saw a body in the street in front of an embassy side entrance. The bomb appeared to have exploded inside the security checkpoint at the entrance of the visa section of the embassy. Several ambulances were dispatched to the area. An AP journalist saw at least one woman who appeared to be seriously injured being carried into an ambulance.
• A suicide bomber blew himself up inside an entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing at least three people, Turkish police sources said. The bomber got to the first X-ray machine leading to the visa section, the sources added. Turkish television footage showed smoke rising from the area and the heavily damaged door, which led to a side street. A call to the embassy’s main number at about 2:10 p.m. local time (7:10 a.m. ET) was not answered. Speaking at about the same time, State Department spokesman Harry Edwards said that it did not yet have any details on the explosion and could not immediately confirm any attack.
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Breaking: 3 Reported Dead in Blast Near U.S. Embassy in Turkey [UPDATED]
• 2 Reported Dead in Blast Near U.S. Embassy in Turkey: A suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in the Turkish capital on Friday and at least two people are dead, a police official said. An Associated Press journalist saw a body in the street in front of an embassy side entrance. The bomb appeared to have exploded inside the security checkpoint at the entrance of the visa section of the embassy. Several ambulances were dispatched to the area. An AP journalist saw at least one woman who appeared to be seriously injured being carried into an ambulance.
• A suicide bomber blew himself up inside an entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing at least three people, Turkish police sources said. The bomber got to the first X-ray machine leading to the visa section, the sources added. Turkish television footage showed smoke rising from the area and the heavily damaged door, which led to a side street. A call to the embassy’s main number at about 2:10 p.m. local time (7:10 a.m. ET) was not answered. Speaking at about the same time, State Department spokesman Harry Edwards said that it did not yet have any details on the explosion and could not immediately confirm any attack.