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afternoon istanbul time. obviously new information is still coming in. this happened if you ve ever been a tourist in istanbul, this is the beating heart of istanbul, it has shops, restaurants, bars, galleries, you name it. it is popular with tourists and with locals. i know from speaking with my colleague that the weather today was absolutely gorgeous. so you had a lot of families out on a sunday stroll with their kids. you had young people sitting at bars and cafes. and then you had this explosion. images shown as you can see them there on turkish tv are horrifying. a freelance journalist and witness to this told cnn he was in a shop not far from this literally meters, he believes, from where the explosion look place. when he came out of that shop, he saw people lying onbleeding
remote from the uk but it has meant a lot to those veterans who have come back. painful memories for a number of them, but they have come back for the first time since the war in 1982. the turkish president says an explosion in the centre of istanbul has killed six people. more than fifty others are reported to have been injured. the blast happened at lunchtime, when many people were crowded into a narrow pedestrianised shopping street. president erdogan has said initial signs point to terror attack. 0ur correspondent 0rla guerin has been on the scene and has given us this update this afternoon. i am at the edge of the street. i am at the square and this is an area that would normally be one of the busiest parts of this very busy city. this is a very popular destination for shopping, for visitors. it is now completely sealed off and there is a very heavy police presence. i have seen riot police arrive
and legs. the latest numbers, at least six killed, more than 50 now injured. the cause of the explosion is unclear, but president erdogan called it an attack, promising those responsible would be identified and punished. he s just about ready to leave for the g20 summit. he s trying to negotiate the russians and ukrainians back to the table. of course, he stressed that there is no clear link at this point with terrorism. but he says the local governors told him this smells of terror. according to political information, a woman was somehow involved. again, though, that s very preliminary at this stage. one other thing to mention, fredricka, look, istanbul is no