Seven arrested in connection with Istanbul Airport attack

Published July 11th, 2016 - 11:00 GMT
Consuls of European countries lay cloves and roses at the explosion site at Ataturk airport International terminal on July 1, 2016 three days after a suicide bombing and gun attack targeted Istanbuls Ataturk airport, killing 44 people. (AFP/File)
Consuls of European countries lay cloves and roses at the explosion site at Ataturk airport International terminal on July 1, 2016 three days after a suicide bombing and gun attack targeted Istanbuls Ataturk airport, killing 44 people. (AFP/File)

Seven people were arrested in Istanbul late Sunday in relation to a deadly suicide bomb attack that killed dozens last month.

The arrests followed risk analysis and profile assessment reports by Istanbul anti-terror police and were ordered by the city's Bakirkoy Criminal Court of Peace, judicial sources said.

The suspects, pending trial, face charges of "being a member of armed terrorist group" and "assisting pre-mediated homicide", the sources added.

Forty-five people were killed and more than 200 injured at Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport on June 28th when three suicide bombers, all foreign nationals, opened fire and blew themselves up at the international terminal.

A prosecution source named two of the bombers as Rakim Bulgarov and Vadim Osmanov, without giving information on either man's nationality.

Sunday's arrests bring the total number of suspects under arrest to 37.

*Anadolu Agency correspondent Satuk Bugra Kutlugun contributed to this report from Ankara.

By Melike Gallenkus

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