Ten people were injured on Oct. 25 in an explosion that occurred inside a car in the carpark of the Antalya Chamber of Commerce and Industry in southern Turkey, the local governor’s office has announced, according to Hurriyet.
The wounded sustained only light injuries from broken glass, it said.
The cause of the explosion, which occurred at about 8:50 a.m., was unclear.
Antalya Mayor Menderes Türel told private broadcaster CNN Türk that the explosion might have been an accident as no one was in critical condition.
Meanwhile, Antalya Chamber of Trade and Industry head Davut Çetin told the broadcaster that there were no casualties in the explosion.
Çetin added that the incident might have been caused by the explosion of a vehicle with an LPG system.
Doğan News Agency (DHA) correspondent Hasan Demirbaş said there was a destroyed vehicle at the scene, as well as a large number of lightly injured people.
There were also four other vehicles and buildings that had experienced damage in the vicinity, he said.
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It said the cause of the blast was not immediately known.
The Dogan news agency broadcast footage showing five ambulances in front of the building, where dozens of people looked on.
An eyewitness who was at the building told CNN Turk the blast smashed windows and left people bloodied and a Dogan reporter said one vehicle was blown apart.
Antalya is a major tourist resort on Turkey`s Mediterranean coast. In August, two rockets hit a commercial facility near a resort town in the province, but caused no casualties.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for that attack, but Kurdish and far-left militants have staged similar attacks, mostly against the security forces, in the past.
Turkey has been hit by a series of deadly bombings this year, some of which have been blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), and some on Islamic State militants.
In August a suicide bomber killed at least 50 people in an attack on a wedding party in the southeastern city of Gaziantep.
10 injured in explosion in Turkey`s Antalya - VIDEO
25 October 2016
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An explosion rocked the car park of a chamber of commerce building in the resort province of Antalya in southern Turkey on Tuesday, causing some casualties and ambulances were sent to the area, AzVision.az reports citing the Turkish media.
