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Turkey identifies majority of Istanbul airport attack victims

Türkiye Materials 29 June 2016 14:25 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, June 29

By Rufiz Hafizoglu – Trend:

Turkey has established the identities of the majority of those killed in the terrorist attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport, the Haber 7 newspaper reports.

Among those killed, 23 people were Turks, five Saudis, two Iraqis, a Tunisian, an Uzbek, an Iranian, a Jordanian and a Ukrainian.

Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport came under a terrorist attack June 28.

Thirty-six people were killed, and 147 were wounded in the attack.

The “Islamic State” (IS, ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) terrorist group stands behind the attack, according to preliminary reports.

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