Turkish police detain one suspect in Istanbul explosion

Turkish olice have detained one suspect for possible links to today's bombing inIstanbul in the Marmara province of Kocaeli, Hurriyet Daily News cites CNN Türk as saying. 


Istanbul police chief Hüseyin Çapkın said sixteen people, fifteen of them police officers, were injured in the blast.

Çapkın said the explosion was caused by a bomb that was remotely detonated.  

A blast shook Istanbul’s Sütlüce district this morning, as fifteen police officers were wounded, according to news agencies. The blast took place near a midibus carrying police officers, on the İmrahor Street in a district near the Golden Horn.

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