Explosions Near Besiktas Home Stadium In Turkey Leave 29 Dead

Two explosions near a football stadium in Turkey’s biggest city, Istanbul, have killed 29 people and injured 166.

According to a BBC report, Saturday evening’s blasts – a car bombing and a suicide bombing – targeted police, officials say.

They occurred two hours after a match between top-division teams Besiktas and Bursaspor at Besiktas’ home stadium.

Ten arrests were made. Turkey has begun a day of national mourning. The country has seen a recent wave of deadly militant attacks in major cities.

No group has said it was behind the attack but a wave of bombings in Turkey this year has been carried out by Kurdish militants and so-called Islamic State (IS), the BBC’s Turkey correspondent, Mark Lowen, reports.