Turkey observed a day of mourning as funerals began for some of the 42 people who were killed in the triple suicide bombing and gun attack on Turkey’s main airport in Istanbul Tuesday. Turkish police say they have conducted more than a dozen raids across Istanbul, detaining 13 people in connection with the attack. Initial reports say the nationalities of the Istanbul airport attackers may have been Chechen, Uzbek and Kyrgyz, and that they may have spoken Russian. The attack also wounded more than 200 people, some of whom remain in critical condition. The sister of one of the wounded victims spoke out.
Emine Kulakaç: “While my brother was running to help, the first bomb exploded. My other brother told him to come back. He couldn’t come back. A bomb exploded. A boy was injured. Because the boy was in a pool of blood, my brother ran to help, and he was also injured. He is in critical condition. They can’t intervene, because he has shrapnel all over his body.”
We’ll go to Istanbul after headlines.