Governor: Turkey arrests nine alleged ISIL members preparing attack
Region
- 04 November, 2015
- 10:17
Baku. 4 November. REPORT.AZ/ Nine alleged members of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) believed to have been preparing a suicide bomb attack on a political party's offices in Istanbul have been remanded in custody by a court in southeast Turkey, the local governor's office said.
Report informs citing the Turkish media, police detained two of the suspects after a brief car chase in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep and seven more suspects were detained in subsequent police raids, the governor's office said in a statement dated November 3.
Militants were seized about 9 kg of TNT, 4 hand grenades, explosive devices, suicide belt, 4 pistols and 2 rifles.
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