stanbul airport explosions: 10 dead, Justice minister says

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At least 10 people have been killed and 20 others injured in the attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told CNN. The two suicide bombers were also killed. Bozdag said one attacker “first opened fire with a Kalashnikov then detonated himself” at the airport entrance. In total two bombs exploded. One of them was located just outside the terminal on the pavement, the other was at the security gate at the entrance to the airport. Authorities said no bombs exploded within the airport building itself, according to the minister — A Turkish official told CNN that police fired shots at suspects near the international terminal in an effort to neutralize them. -

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