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Syrian suicide bomber kills 10 in Istanbul's tourist heart

Most of the dead are Germans; Turkish PM Davutoglu offers condolences to Merkel

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Published Tue, Jan 12, 2016 · 09:50 PM

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    Istanbul

    TEN people, mostly foreigners, were killed on Tuesday when a Syrian suicide bomber blew himself up in Istanbul's busiest tourist district, in the latest deadly attack to hit the country.

    Images showed several mutilated corpses lying on the ground close to the iconic Ottoman-era Blue Mosque in Sultanahmet, a district which is home to Istanbul's biggest concentration of historic monuments.

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