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    MORTAR ATTACK IN ISTANBUL TARGETED MILITARY GARRISON

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    07.08.2008 18:28 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ A series of explosions ripped through central
    Istanbul on Thursday but officials would not confirm reports they
    were caused by mortars targeting a nearby military garrison.

    Three people were slightly injured in the explosions outside a
    municipal building in Istanbul on Thursday. A television report said
    the blasts were caused by mortars that targeted a military garrison
    near the municipal building in Uskudar, on Istanbul's Asian side.

    One blast occurred in a garbage-collecting truck in the car park of
    the building, while two others ripped through a neighboring cemetery,
    Uskudar mayor Mehmet Cakir said.

    "Three workers were slightly injured," Istanbul police chief Celalettin
    Cerrah said at the scene.

    He said bomb experts were investigating the incident, but added it was
    too early to conclude it was an attack against the building, raising
    also the possibility that waste in the truck might have exploded.

    The NTV news channel quoted police sources as saying that four
    mortars were fired from the cemetery, located behind the municipal
    building. The channel suggested the intended target was a military
    garrison several hundred meters away. Witnesses had earlier said that
    explosives were hurled from behind trees in the cemetery.

    Hand grenades or small bombs designed to scare rather than kill are
    thought to have been used, the CNN Turk news channel said. Two people
    on a motorbike were seen fleeing the scene, it said. The explosions
    shattered the windows of the building and damaged vehicles in the
    car park, AFP reports.
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