Suicide bombers who committed explosions at the international airport Ataturk in Istanbul, were citizens of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Federation.
About it reports Reuters with reference to the Turkish authorities.
According to the Turkish Dogan Agency, the Russians – the native of Dagestan.
Earlier Thursday, the Habertürk TV channel reported that one of three suicide bombers who blew herself up in the Istanbul airport, could be the native of Chechnya. According to him, this man arrived into Turkey from the Syrian city of raqqa, captured by a terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG, is prohibited in Russia). Some media give the name of the terrorist Osman Badinov.
Meanwhile, the newspaper Milliyet, citing sources among the investigators reported that all three terrorists are citizens of Tajikistan. But according to the news website Karrar.com”, the attack planned cell IG, which included seven people. Suicide bombers, according to the website, were immigrants from Chechnya, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Official statements from the authorities on the question of the nationality of the terrorists has not yet been reported, but it is believed that they were foreigners.
Moscow’s Statement
Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov has no information confirming or refuting the information that one of the terrorists at the airport in Istanbul was a native of Russia.
“I can’t say, of course, is the kind of information first exchange of special services”, – said the representative of the Kremlin to journalists.
He also noted that he did not know, “did you ask for some information, any information, whether Russian is a citizen or not.” “This probably will eventually become known, but I do not have this information,” – said Peskov.
The terrorist attack in Istanbul
The result of a terrorist attack in the international terminal of the Istanbul airport on 28 June, killing 42 people, including 13 foreign nationals. 238 people, among whom there are foreigners, were injured.
On Thursday, Turkish police in connection with the attack were detained 113 people.
