Suicide bomber shot dead

TURKISH police shot and killed a suspected leftist suicide bomber who tried to detonate his bomb inside the Justice Ministry yesterday and then fled.

Television footage showed a Special Forces policeman shooting the already-wounded man several times at close range as he lay in the street in front of the building. Reports said the man was trying again to detonate the bomb while on the ground.

Justice Minister Cemil Cicek said the bomb was strapped to the bomber.