There was no immediate claim of responsibility but security sources said police raided the home of a suspected Islamic State militant believed to have carried out the attack and detained his father for DNA tests and questioning.Turkey has suffered attacks recently both by Kurdish militants and members of Islamic State, raising concern at home and among NATO allies about the increasing spillover of conflict from neighbouring Syria. The city of Gaziantep is just 65 km (40 miles) from the Syrian border.The Gaziantep-based suspect is believed to have detonated a bomb-laden vehicle just outside the gates of the city’s main police headquarters on a street housing several other provincial government buildings, whose windows were also smashed.”The father of a suspect who is believed to have carried out the attack has been detained. We have records of the suspect’s links with Islamic State,” a security source said.Sources also said there were two vehicles carrying out the attack. While the suicide bomber was inside the detonated car, three men opened fire on police guarding the station from a second.Several security sources also said police had received intelligence on the attack on Saturday and had ordered officers not to gather in front of the… Read full this story
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