Istanbul bombing: 46 detained as Turkey minister blames Kurdish separatists

Six people died and 81 were injured when Istanbul's popular pedestrian thoroughfare stiklal Avenue was hit by a bomb attack

Turkey's interior minister has accused Kurdish militants in northern Syria of responsibility for a bombing in a busy Istanbul shopping thoroughfare that killed six people, and said that a suspect had been arrested.

Six people died and 81 were injured when a bomb struck Istanbul's popular pedestrian thoroughfare stiklal Avenue, timed to strike when it was most crowded. Turkey's justice minister, Bekir Bozda, said that a woman sat on a bench there for 45 minutes", and that the explosion occurred moments after she left.