ANKARA An explosion from a suspected car bomb ripped through a street in the Turkish capital Ankara on Tuesday near a neighborhood housing government buildings, killing three people and wounding 15, Interior Minister Naim Sahin said. The explosion gutted several parked cars before it was put out by fire fighters [Reuters] 
 
 At least two people have been killed and several injured in an explosion in the centre of the Turkish capital, Ankara, reports say. I send them my condolences and with hatred condemn the terror," Gul said, according to state-run Anatolian news agency. Television images showed several parked cars ablaze in front of a local state authority's offices, while a plume of thick smoke rose over the area. At least three of the injured were in serious condition and some of them reportedly lost their limbs. Kurdish separatists, leftists and Islamist militants have carried out bomb attacks in Turkish cities in the past.
– A suspected car bomb rocked the Turkish capital of Ankara today, and al-Jazeera cites reports claiming that at least two people were killed. No one has yet claimed responsibility, but Kurdish rebels have been escalating their decades-long fight for autonomy and attacking Turkish targets. Rebel groups, as well as Islamic and leftist militants, have all previously used bombs in the country. Reports of casualties are conflicting: The AP reports none, but says 15 were injured, including three seriously. Reuters, meanwhile, acknowledges the reports of two deaths but quotes a local mayor who says no one has died, but that three have been seriously injured. A local news agency has reported that a woman was detained near the scene. “I felt the blast effect of the explosion some 500 meters away,” says one witness. “I saw vehicles on fire and an injured man said people lost their limbs.”