Police rushed to the scene and opened fire, injured one of the women before tracking them to a nearby government building where they were holed up.
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Police then launched an assault on the apartment, “neutralising” the two, the official Anatolia news agency said, quoting police sources. He said two police officers were wounded one by broken glass during the attack on the bus and the other during the operation on the building.
After clearing residents from near-by building in the Bayrampasa district, they stormed the building and killed the two females.
Sahin said police were trying to identify the assailants and possible accomplices.
A video has emerged of two women showering polce with bullets in a terrorist attack in Istanbul, Turkey this morning. Turkey has also become a target for Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, who are blamed for three suicide bombings – one previous year in the town of Suruç near the Syrian border and another in the capital, Ankara, and one in İstanbul in January.
Tensions in Turkey have been running high over the past few months, as Ankara continues its fight against the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), which it views as a terrorist organization.
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