10 die in suicide bomb blast at Istanbul tourist site

Suicide bomber believed to have crossed into Turkey from Syria

A suicide bomber thought to have crossed recently from Syria killed at least 10 people, most of them German tourists, in Istanbul’s historic heart, in an attack Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed on Islamic State (IS).

All of those killed in Sultanahmet square, near the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia — major tourist sites in the centre of one of the world’s most visited cities — were foreigners, Davutoglu said.