US embassy bomber may be Turkish

Turkish police forensic experts inspect the site after an explosion at the entrance of the U.S. embassy in Ankara February 1, 2013. A suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives in an attack which killed two people at the embassy on Friday, the provincial governor Alaaddin Yuksel told reporters. REUTERS/Stringer

Turkish police forensic experts inspect the site after an explosion at the entrance of the U.S. embassy in Ankara February 1, 2013. A suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives in an attack which killed two people at the embassy on Friday, the provincial governor Alaaddin Yuksel told reporters. REUTERS/Stringer

Published Feb 1, 2013

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Ankara - A suicide bomber who attacked the U.S. Embassy in Turkey on Friday, killing himself and a security guard, was believed to have been a Turkish citizen, Interior Minister Muammer Guler told reporters.

Guler said a woman was badly wounded in the attack on the U.S. mission and that two security guards were receiving out-patient care at a hospital. - Reuters

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