Deaths reported in Turkey bus blast

Hospital sources in the central Turkish city of Kayseri confirmed that people had been killed and wounded after an explosion hit a bus there on Saturday, although they were not able to give any details about the death toll.
Broadcaster NTV said the bus was carrying off-duty soldiers and civilians when it was hit by the blast near a bus stop at the campus of Erciyes University.

Ambulances were sent to the area after the explosion, the sources said. 

Turkey’s Dogan news agency said the blast hit the bus as it drove past a car believed to be packed with explosives. The blast came a week after a twin bombing outside an Istanbul soccer stadium killed more than 40 people and wounded more than 100, an attack claimed by Kurdish militants.

Turkish deputy prime minister Veysi Kaynak said on Saturday that a car bomb attack on a bus carrying off-duty soldiers in the central city of Kayseri had wounded some people, but that the death toll was unclear. 

Kaynak speaking to reporters in comments broadcast live on television, said the attack targeted the bus and resembled the twin attacks last week outside an Istanbul soccer stadium. Hospital sources in Kayseri earlier confirmed that more than 25 people had been wounded and some killed in the blast.

Courtesy Of The Irish Times