Suicide bomber detonates a device in the Turkish capital, a second assailant is killed in a shootout
The district targeted is home to many ministries and the parliament, which is due to open its new working session later today and which the head of state, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was due to address, according to the Turkish media.
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00:00 A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device outside Turkey's interior ministry in Ankara
00:06 on Sunday morning, just hours before parliament was scheduled to reopen after a summer recess.
00:12 A second assailant was killed in a shootout with police.
00:16 Two officers were reportedly slightly injured during the attack.
00:19 There was no immediate information on the assailants.
00:24 Kurdish and far-left militant groups as well as the so-called Islamic State have carried
00:29 out deadly attacks throughout the country in the past.
00:32 (whooshing)