Thirteen people died and up to 100 were wounded on Sunday when two bombs exploded in a busy shopping district in Istanbul, officials said. "It is certain that this is a terror attack," city governor Muammer Guler told reporters at the scene.TV showed ambulances carrying badly wounded people to hospital after the explosions at two different sites in the Gungoren district of Turkey's biggest city. The victims were killed by the second explosion after a small blast in a telephone kiosk brought people out onto the street, NTV television news said. "First a percussion bomb exploded and then a bomb in a garbage container exploded. Thirteen were killed and more than 100 people were wounded," Deputy Prime Minister Hayati Yazici told reporters.
Governor Guler said the "heinous attack" was not a suicide bombing. "The blasts occurred in a very busy district and this raised the casualties," he said. One witness said: "Tens of people were scattered around. People's heads, arms, were flying in the air."
| Update: The toll is now 15. |