Dozens dead in Turkish bomb blasts

Two car bombs exploded in a Turkish town near the border with Syria today, killing around 40 people and injuring 100 others, the country's interior minister said.

Interior minister Muammer Guler told private NTV television that the explosions hit the town of Reyhanli, just across the border from Syria’s Idlib province. One of the car bombs exploded outside the town hall while the other went off outside the post office, he said.