The explosion struck close to a monument called the German Fountain, between the Blue Mosque and the Haghia Sofia — the city`s famous landmark turned a museum and one of Istanbul`s areas most popular with tourists.
He also said that the suspected suicide bomber had been identified from body parts as a Syrian born in 1988.
Turkey’s President Erdoğan has blamed a suicide bomber of Syrian origin for an attack on a tourist site in Istanbul that killed 10 people and left another 15 wounded.
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