What the records say
- When
- 10 Dec 2016
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 41.04° N, 28.99° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Взрывы в Стамбуле 10 декабря 2016 года.
2016 Beşiktaş bombings
Terrorist attack
On the evening of 10 December 2016, two explosions caused by a car bombing and suicide bombing in Istanbul's Beşiktaş municipality killed 48 people and injured 166 others. 39 of those killed were police officers, 7 were civilians and 2 were perpetrators. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) assumed responsibility, claiming that their members killed more than 100 police officers.
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