‘Turkey has turned into bloodbath after Ankara blast’

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) says the country has descended into a bloodbath following a deadly car bomb explosion targeting military vehicles in the capital, Ankara.

“The point we arrived at is that the country has turned into a bloodbath. It is a pity. It is wrong for this country. All of us are in pain. My heart is hurting. It is hurting deeply,” CHP Leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, told reporters on Thursday.

He further noted that Turkey is not being governed well under the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

At least 28 people lost their lives when a car laden with explosives detonated on Wednesday next to military buses as they waited at traffic lights on Ankara’s Inonu Boulevard. At least 81 others sustained injuries in the act of terror.

Twenty-seven of the deceased were members of the military while the only civilian was a journalist identified as Gulsen Yildiz, who specialized in agriculture.

Seven of those wounded are still in intensive care unit, the Turkish Health Ministry said.

Following the deadly attack, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cancelled a trip to the Azerbaijani capital, Baku. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu also scrapped plans for a Thursday EU mini-summit on the refugee crisis between Turkey and 11 EU countries.

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