Police officers, rescue officials, firefighters and officials surround the scene of blast in Istanbul, Turkey, October 6, 2016. REUTERS/Osman Orsal

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A bomb attached to a motorbike exploded near a police station in southwest Istanbul on Thursday wounding 10 people, the provincial governor said.

The blast occurred in the Yenibosna neighborhood, several kilometers from Istanbul Ataturk Airport, the country’s largest. Television footage showed damaged vehicles, shattered glass and broken windows in the residential area.

Governor Vasip Sahin said all of the wounded were civilians and that investigations into who might be responsible were ongoing. There were no immediate claims of responsibility on Thursday.

Kurdish, leftist and Islamic State militants have all carried out bomb attacks across Turkey in the past.

The last blast in Istanbul was in June, a month before an attempted coup to overthrow President Tayyip Erdogan’s government, when 45 people were killed in a triple suicide bombing at the airport. That attack was blamed on Islamic State.

There have been other attacks in the east of the country, including the bombing of a wedding party near the city of Gaziantep in August, when more than 50 people were killed.</s>ISTANBUL — A bomb placed on a motorcycle exploded Thursday near a police station in Istanbul, wounding at least 10 people, a senior official said.

Vasip Sahin, the governor for Istanbul, told reporters at the scene in the Yenibosna district that none of the injured was in serious condition, retracting an earlier statement that one person was seriously hurt.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, which could be heard from the city's nearby Ataturk Airport. Sahin said the investigation was ongoing and of the victims Thursday were civilians.

The private Dogan news agency said police were searching for a person spotted leaving the scene carrying a motorcycle helmet.

Turkey has been rocked by a wave of bomb attacks in the past year that have killed hundreds of people and been blamed on Kurdish rebels or Islamic State group militants.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has been waging a three-decade long insurgency, has been targeting police and military in its campaign for Kurdish autonomy in southeast Turkey.

A fragile 2 ½-year cease-fire between Turkey and the PKK collapsed last summer. Since then, more than 600 Turkish security personnel and thousands of PKK militants have been killed in clashes, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency. Rights groups say hundreds of civilians have also been killed in the clashes.

The Dogan news agency said several parked cars and nearby windows were damaged in the blast.</s>At least 5 hurt in bomb attack near Istanbul police station

ISTANBUL — A bomb placed on a motorcycle has exploded near a police station in Istanbul on Thursday, wounding at least five people, a senior official said.

Vasip Sahin, the governor for Istanbul, said on his Twitter account that the explosion near the police station in Yenibosna district was caused by bomb mounted on a motorcycle. One of the injured people was in serious condition, he said.

The private Dogan news agency said several parked cars were damaged in the blast which also smashed windows of nearby buildings.

NTV television, citing unidentified security officials, said police was searching for one person who was spotted leaving the area on a motorbike.

Turkey has been rocked by a wave of deadly bomb attacks in the past year carried out by Kurdish rebels or Islamic State group militants.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has been waging a three-decade long insurgency, has been targeting police and military in its campaign for Kurdish autonomy in southeast Turkey.</s>ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained six people in connection with a bomb attack near a police station in Istanbul that wounded 10 people.

Authorities say Thursday's attack — carried out with a bomb mounted onto a motorcycle — was the work of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party, or PKK.

The Anadolu Agency says Friday the suspected bomber was detained overnight in the central Turkish province of Aksaray. Two other people traveling with him inside a vehicle were also detained. Police in Istanbul later detained three other suspected accomplices, the agency reported.

PKK has been waging a three-decade-long insurgency that has killed tens of thousands of people since 1984. Violence flared anew last year with the collapse of a 2½-year cease-fire.</s>ISTANBUL (AP) — An explosion near a police station in Istanbul on Thursday has wounded at least one person, a private news agency reported.

Dogan news agency said the explosion near the police station in Yenibosna district was caused by a car bomb. The injured person was hospitalized in serious condition.

Turkey has been rocked by a wave of deadly bomb attacks in the past year carried out by Kurdish rebels or Islamic State group militants.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has been waging a three-decade long insurgency has been targeting police and military in its campaign for Kurdish autonomy in southeast Turkey.</s>The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group, said on Friday it carried out a bomb attack near a police station in Istanbul on Thursday that injured 10 people.

Earlier on Friday, six people were detained in connection with the attack in the Yenibosna neighborhood, several kilometers from Istanbul's Ataturk Airport. Istanbul's governor said the explosive device was attached to a motorbike.

In a statement on its website, TAK vowed to continue attacks across Turkey.</s>A large explosion has struck outside a police station in Istanbul just hours after an Isis suicide bomber killed more than 20 people near a refugee camp on the Syrian border.

Vasip Şahin, the governor of Istanbul, said a motorbike bomb was source of the blast in the Turkish city's Yenibosna district on Thursday afternoon.

A witness in a nearby school told the Daily Sabah newspaper gunshots were heard after the explosion, while another at a bus station 500 metres away felt the ground shake with the force of the blast.

Several people were injured, with at least one taken to hospital for treatment, with photographs of the scene showing the road strewn with debris and several cars and vans with their windows smashed and bodywork dented by shrapnel.

Mr Şahin said the attack struck Fatih Street, which leads to a mosque along an avenue of busy shops and cafes.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility from militant groups.

The attack in Istanbul came just hours after at least 29 people were killed in a suicide bombing near a refugee camp at the Syrian border.

Isis claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed several Turkish-backed members of the Free Syrian Army, who are fighting both Isis and Kurdish rebels in the country's civil war.

Activists said the opposition fighters had gathered near a small restaurant in Atmeh, which houses a border crossing used by anti-government rebels to transport both fighters and supplies.

Graphic footage of the aftermath of the blast showed about 18 bodies lying on the ground outside what appears to be a clinic, including some wearing military uniforms.

Numan Kurtulmus, Turkey's deputy Prime Minister, described the blast as an “inhuman attack”, adding that “those who perpetrated this committed a crime against humanity”.

Turkey has been the target of a string of massacres by both Isis and Kurdish separatists in recent months.

Islamists have attacked tourists and protestsers in Istanbul and Ankara, as well as launching suicide bombings in areas near the Syrian border.

Kurdish militant groups have more frequently targeted police and the Turkish armed forces, who are currently carrying out operations against the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the south-east as a three-decade insurgency continues.

Another group, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) have also claimed responsibility for attacks including a car bombing that killed 37 people in Ankara in March.</s>Turkish police have captured a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant whom they suspect carried out a "motorbike bomb" attack on Thursday that wounded 10 people near an Istanbul police station, the state-run Anadolu Agency said on Friday.

It said a total of six people had been detained in connection with the attack in the Yenibosna neighborhood, several kilometers from Istanbul Ataturk Airport, the country's largest airport.</s>A suspected car bomb exploded close to a police station near Istanbul's Ataturk airport on Thursday and at least one person was seriously wounded, Turkish television and the Dogan news agency reported.

NTV television showed ambulances rushing to the scene and said security forces were deployed in the area. There have been a number of bomb attacks in Turkey in recent months, some blamed on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group and some on Islamic State.
A motorcycle bomb in the Yenibosna neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey, injures 10 civilians.