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The death toll continues to rise after multiple explosions rocked Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport. At least 3 suicide bombers were involved and officials suspect the Islamic State might be behind the deadly attack.
A woman stands and cries outside Istanbul's Ataturk airport, Tuesday, June 28, 2016. Two explosions and gunfire rocked Istanbul's Ataturk airport, killing dozens of people and wounding others.(Photo: AP)
A terrorist attack at Turkey's Istanbul Ataturk airport began with gunfire followed by explosions and the wail of ambulance sirens.
When it was over, at least three dozen people were dead,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>147 were wounded and hundreds of travelers and people waiting for them were reeling from the aftermath.
The attack began when at least one attacker opened fire with a Kalashnikov rifle, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told Turkey's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Hurriyet Daily News. Turkey's Prime Minister<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Binali Y?ld?r?m told reporters at the scene that all three attackers fired on travelers and police before blowing themselves up, according to British newspaper The Telegraph.
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"There was a huge explosion, extremely loud," said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Ali Tekin, who was at the arrivals hall waiting for a guest when the attack took place, according to ABC News.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"The roof came down. Inside the airport it is terrible, you can't recognize it, the damage is big."
The government<span style="color: Red;">*</span>ordered a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>media blackout within Turkey, according to the Associated Press.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Yildirim said the airport was reopened to flights and departures from 2:20 a.m. local time Wednesday.
American Adam Keally from the Boston area was inside the airport during the attacks and described the travelers he saw to CBS News.
“They had cuts and people were very badly injured,” Keally said. “One guy had holes in his back from shrapnel or from glass.”
Keally said he and others started running when the attack began, but then confusion took over as blasts were heard from different directions.
“People were shooting from one side and we all ran the other way and then the bombs went off and people started running the other way and there was more shooting and we came out,” Keally said.
Newlywed Iraqi-American reporter Steven Nabil was traveling with his wife, returning from their honeymoon on their way to New York City,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>when the shooting started and she was injured, he wrote on Twitter.
Nabil wrote that he had left his wife, whom he doesn’t name, at a café while he went to a Sbarro restaurant. When he heard the commotion he ran back to her, broke into a store and “waited in terror while he was shooting outside the store."
“We barely made it,” he wrote.
I ran back got my wife pulled her to store broke in and waited in terror while he was shooting outside the store.we barely made it#istanbul
— Steven nabil (@stevoiraq) June 28, 2016
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Mehmet Bars told TIME that he was in the baggage claim, having just arrived from Germany, when the attack, and the mayhem<span style="color: Red;">*</span>began.
“I stayed down,” Bars<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said. “I go outside. Then one man said to me, ‘don’t go inside,’ we must run. I run when I see the bomb explode.”
He said he heard intermittent gunfire for another 20 minutes.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>As Bars spoke, ambulances screamed near the entrance to the airport, rushing in and leaving with the wounded, TIME reported.
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Eyewitness Ercan Ceyhan told CNN-Turk that he saw about 30 ambulances enter the airport, according to the Associated Press. The wounded, including police, were transferred to Bakirkoy State Hospital, AP reported, citing the private DHA news agency.
“Everything happened very fast,” Ahmad Alomary told Arabic language news site HuffPost Arabi.
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Alomary was waiting for a friend arriving from Dubai when<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"all of a sudden we heard a loud explosion noise and the security guards asked everybody to lie on the ground."
"The hall was crowded with many people, some with children," Alomary said. "We all laid down, then I managed to run out from the hall."
BBC reporter Mark Lowen, who posted photographs of the blasted terminal inside the airport after the attack, tweeted before leaving:
"Airport official tells us it's 'complete chaos'<span style="color: Red;">*</span>inside. Around 3000 passengers waiting at arrival gates. Could be several hours."
Later, he tweeted again:
"I'm finally out and en route home. Thinking of all those who didn't make it."
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary-general, condemned the "horrific attacks."
"My thoughts are with the families of the victims, those injured and the people of Turkey," he said. <span style="color: Red;">*</span>"There can be no justification for terrorism. NATO Allies stand in solidarity with Turkey, united in our determination to fight terrorism in all its forms."
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but Prime Minister Binali Yildirim<span style="color: Red;">*</span>told<span style="color: Red;">*</span>journalists at the scene that "the evidence points to Daesh," another name for the Islamic State, AFP reported.
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