Probe over fatal blast at Istanbul airport in Turkey

An overnight explosion at an airport in Istanbul killed one person and damaged three planes hundreds of metres apart, Turkish media said, triggering a security alert as authorities sought to determine if a bomb was responsible.

The blast at Sabiha Gokcen, the city’s second airport and located on its Asian side, occurred shortly after 2.00am (midnight GMT), local budget carrier Pegasus said, fatally wounding a cleaner on one of its planes.

The airport’s owner, Malaysia Airports, referred to more than one explosion “at the tarmac area”, and added adding that normal flight operations had resumed by 2.00 GMT.