An explosion occurred in Istanbul’s global Sabiha Gokcen airport on Wednesday, wounding two cleaning staff, a local official said.
Advertisement
Beach town strikes jackpot in Spain’s ‘El Gordo’ lottery
Tickets cost 200 euros (8) each, but groups of would-be winners often go in together on tickets and split the prize. Organizers said ticket sales totaled 2.5 billion euros this year, up 4.5 percent from last year.
Specialists are checking other planes and the area for traces of explosives.
Pep talk is ‘undermining’ City boss Pellegrini
“I am not happy with the two or three games when we didn’t score goals but normally we continue being the most scoring team”. Pep has dominated both La Liga and the Bundesliga and only missed out on the league title once during his time at Barcelona.
A spokesman for the airport confirmed that operations were continuing as usual.
Groundbreaking lesbian Air Force officer killed in Afghanistan
Lemm played on the Beemer High School football team and graduated in 1989, said his mother, Shirley Lemm, who lives in Beemer. All but two of Helmand’s 14 districts are effectively controlled or heavily contested by Taliban insurgents, officials said.
In a statement, Pegasus Airlines said the explosion happened in the airport apron where planes are parked and unloaded.
Pegasus Airlines – a budget carrier based in Istanbul – said the cause of the blast was unclear.
Armed police imposed tight security at the airport’s entrance, Turkish media said, but flights were said to be running normally.
Advertisement
Turkey is on alert after 103 people were killed on October 10 when two suicide bombers ripped through a crowd of peace activists in the capital Ankara, the worst attack in modern Turkey’s history. A three-decades-old conflict between the state and the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has flared up in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast since the collapse of a ceasefire in July.
