People are evacuated following an attack at the Bataclan concert venue in Paris, on November 13, 2015. At least 18 people were killed in multiple attacks in Paris Friday, including one near the Stade de France sports stadium. AFP PHOTO / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD
Antalya: A day after Paris attack, ISIS terrorist blew himself up in southern Turkey on Sunday, injuring 4 policemen.
The attack came on a day when World leaders have congregated to attend G20 summit.
Turkey’s state-run agency says four policemen have been injured in an explosion during a raid on a suspected Islamic State militants’ hideout as G-20 leaders began to meet for a summit.
The Anadolu Agency says police late on Saturday raided a fifth-floor apartment believed to be used by an IS cell in Gaziantep city, near the Syrian border. The agency said the explosion occurred as the policemen broke down the door without saying what caused it or if arrests were made.
The raid came hours after Turkish soldiers clashed with IS militants who fired at them near Gaziantep. Four militants were killed.
It was not clear if the two incidents were connected.
G-20 leaders are meeting near the Mediterranean city of Antalya for a summit overshadowed by the Paris attacks.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Turkey’s Mediterranean city of Antalya on Saturday after a three-day visit to Britain for the annual G20 Summit meeting that gets underway on Sunday.
Following the series of attacks in Paris, Turkish government deployed 13,000 police officers to maintain security ahead of the summit which starts today.
The meeting comes one month after a suspected suicide bombing attack in the capital Ankara that killed over 100 people.
In an attack that is being touted as the deadliest of its kind that France has faced since World War II which has left the nation reeling from grief after 129 Parisians were killed.
