Eight held after Turkey attack kills 44

EIGHT men suspected of gunning down 44 people during an engagement ceremony were arrested yesterday, accused of killing the betrothed couple – whose wedding they opposed – along with relatives and friends in a 15-minute rampage.

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the attack was “the result of a feud between two families”.

The bride and her groom were killed in Monday evening’s attack in Bilge, a village of a few hundred people in the conservative heartland of mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey. “Eight people have been caught and detained, and their weapons confiscated. This can be understood as a blood feud between two families,” Interior Minister Besir Atalay told a news conference.