Female militants shot dead after Istanbul attack

Turkish police shot dead two female militants after they fired shots and threw a grenade at a Turkish police bus in Istanbul.

A radical leftist group claimed responsibility for the attack, in which two police officers were lightly wounded, Governor Vasip Sahin said in televised comments.

One woman threw a grenade and the other opened fire with what appeared to be a machine gun as the riot police bus headed for the entrance of a police station in the Bayrampasa district of Turkey’s biggest city, footage from Dogan News Agency showed.