Six people were injured Sunday when a bomb exploded at the entrance to a McDonald's fast food restaurant in the northeastern Turkish city of Trabzon, the Anatolia news agency reported, but police suggested it was not a terrorist act. "We do not think that this action is linked to a (terrorist) organisation," Ramazan Akyurek, chief of security in the city, the largest in the region, said according to the agency.
| "We do not think that this action is linked to a (terrorist) organisation..." |
| "We think the guy asked for cheese. He didn't get cheese. What else could he do?" |
"What is more, so far no person and no organisation has said it was responsible," he said. He said the bomb had been "put together in an amateur way" adding, "there is a strong suspicion pointing towards an individual act."
| "I mean, they didn't even give him napkins!" |
"We have a description and we are working on it," he said earlier at the scene of the blast. Witnesses questioned by the agency spoke of a young man running away from the restaurant, part of the international McDonald's chain. "There was a huge noise as the windows... were smashed," said Zeki Akosy, who was nearby at the time. "At that moment I saw a man aged about 30 running away... People were shouting 'catch him'." |