Event

2015 Istanbul suicide bombing

6 Jan 2015 · 41.01° N, 28.96° E

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When
6 Jan 2015
Kind
Event
Coordinates
41.01° N, 28.96° E
Description
A suicide bomber kills two people in an attack on a police station in a popular tourist district in Istanbul.

Placed at the town its text puts it in, Istanbul.

2015 Istanbul suicide bombing

Terrorist incident in Turkey

On 6 January 2015, Diana Ramazova from Dagestan detonated a bomb vest at a police station in Istanbul's central Sultanahmet district, near the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia. The attack killed Ramazova and injured two police officers, one of whom later succumbed to his wounds. Ramazova was the pregnant widow of a Norwegian-Chechen ISIS fighter in Syria who had been killed in December 2014.

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