ISTANBUL (Reuters)
Thirteen people were killed and up to 70 were wounded on Sunday in two bomb blasts in a busy shopping district in Istanbul, NTV news and medical officials said.
TV showed ambulances carrying badly wounded people to hospital after the explosions at two different sites in the Gungoren district of Turkey's biggest city.
The victims were killed by the second explosion after a small explosion in a telephone kiosk brought people out onto the street, the TV said.
"We received nearly 30 very heavily wounded people," said Abdullah Toker, a manager at Gungoren Kolon Hospital.
Several groups, including Kurdish separatists, far-left groups and Islamists, have carried out bomb attacks in Istanbul in the past.
