No Azerbaijani citizens among those killed or injured in Ankara blast - embassy

  14 March 2016    Read: 1530
No Azerbaijani citizens among those killed or injured in Ankara blast - embassy
"There are no Azerbaijani citizens among those killed or injured in an explosion in Ankara," Azerbaijani Ambassador to Turkey Faiq Baghirov told AzerTag state news agency, AzVision.az reports.

"A hotline was set up at the Embassy," he added.

The car bomb blast at a bus stop near Ankara’s central Kizilay Square was the second this year, after a military convoy was bombed in the capital in February.

In a written statement after the blast, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the bombing as a terror attack and vowed to crack down on terrorist organizations, which he said were trying to use instability in the region to target Turkey.

Turkish authorities have yet to say what militant group was behind the recent Ankara bombing, but the February attack was blamed on Kurdish militias.

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