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Bomb in Ankara - over 100 dead

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HDP rally blown up by suicide bomber(?).
Video shows moment of explosion.
Two explosions at a peace rally in the Turkish capital Ankara have killed at least 30 people, the interior ministry says. Another 126 have been injured.

TV footage shows scenes of panic and people lying on the ground covered in blood, amid protest banners.

The blasts took place near the city's central train station as people gathered for a march organised by leftists groups.

The pro-Kurdish HDP party was among those attending the rally.

Government officials say the blasts were a terrorist attack and are investigating reports that a suicide bomber was behind at least one of the explosions.

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Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is being briefed by the interior and health ministers, state news agency Anadolu says.

The leader of the HDP has blamed the state for the attack, and cancelled all election rallies.

The HDP was among those joining Saturday's rally for "peace and democracy", called for by the confederation of trades unions, which was due to start at 12:00 local time.

The party tweeted that there were "numerous dead and injured", and that police "attacked" people carrying the injured away.

Local resident Emre told the BBC that he heard two separate explosions and saw a number of dead bodies. Angry people tried to attack police cars, he said.

An HDP rally in the city of Diyarbakir was bombed in June, ahead of general elections.

Turkey is holding another election next month, and the BBC's Mark Lowen in Istanbul says it was feared that another similar attack was imminent.

The HDP entered parliament for the first time in June's inconclusive elections.

A suicide bombing by suspected Islamic State militants on a gathering of Socialist youth activists in the town of Suruc on the Syrian border killed at least 30 people in July.

A ceasefire between the Kurdish militant group the PKK and Turkey's government later broke down, and there have been regular attacks from both sides since then
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34495161
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Death toll now rapidly approaching 100.
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I have fixed the number. It seems that Erdogan's left-wing opponents were killed. Is it a strike at HDP from the islamists? And what is more interesting, will Erdogan's police investigate the massacre thoroughly in the coming days?
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I believe islamic state have claimed it.
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How perverse to bomb a peace rally
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