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Turkey: Teenage suicide bomber kills over 50 people at wedding party

A suicide bomber aged between 12 and 14 carried out an attack over the weekend in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, killing some 51 people during a wedding party. The attack was the deadliest in a series of bombings in Turkey this year, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Islamic State was most-likely responsible.

“Yesterday, in Gaziantep Sahinbey district, during a wedding ceremony, a 12-14-year-old suicide bomber exploded or was exploded (by someone). In the beginning there were 94 wounded, but now after discharged patients, there are 69 wounded in hospitals right now. 17 of them are heavily wounded. There are 51 dead,” said Erdogan. The Islamic State has been blamed for other similar attacks in Turkey, often targeting Kurdish gatherings in an effort to inflame ethnic tensions. The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party said the wedding was for one of its members.