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2008 Istanbul bombings | |
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Location | Güngören, Istanbul, Turkey |
Date | July 27, 2008 18:45 (UTC) |
Attack type | Bombings |
Deaths | 17[1] |
Injured | 154 |
The 2008 Istanbul bombings occurred on July 27, 2008 when two explosions hit a busy shopping street in the Güngören district of Istanbul, killing seventeen people, five of them children,[1] and injuring 154.[2] The attacks occurred at 9:45 p.m. local time, 18:45 UTC,[3] on a pedestrian street closed to traffic.[4] The bombings were the deadliest civilian attacks in Turkey since the 2003 Istanbul bombings, five years earlier.[5]