One person was reported killed and 10 others were wounded after an Istanbul police station was attacked early Monday — first with a bomb and then with guns.
Two attackers were also killed after police returned fire, Turkey’s semiofficial Anadolu news agency reported.
The violence began around 1 a.m. Monday in the city’s Sultanbeyli district, police said, when a vehicle-borne bomb exploded near the police station, wounding at least 10 people.
Then, around 6:45 a.m., assailants opened fire at security forces who were guarding the damaged police station, Anadolu reported.
A police officer who was wounded later died at the hospital, the news agency said.
Two women attack U.S. Consulate, officials say
Also Monday, two women staged an armed attack on the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul, the Istanbul Governorship said in a statement.
Details of the attack were not available, but the governorship said one woman was arrested and the other was being sought. The Anadolu news agency said there were no casualties.
Anadolu said the women belonged to the far-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party, which is classified as a terror group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
The Istanbul Governorship statement said “a long range weapon and a good amount of artillery” were seized.
Video footage showed police officers with rifles blocking off the streets outside the consulate in the Sariyer neighborhood of the city.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the Monday incidents were connected.
U.S. diplomatic missions in Turkey have been targeted in the past.
In July 2008, gunmen attacked the consulate in Istanbul. Three Turkish police officers and three gunmen died in the ensuing gunbattle.
In February 2013, an attacker from a leftist group labeled by the Turkish government as a terrorist organization detonated a suicide bomb at the entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, killing himself and a Turkish security guard, and maiming a Turkish journalist.
