The new death toll of the Tuesday’s terror attacks on Ataturk Airport in Istanbul climbed to 41, among whom 13 were foreign citizens, the Istanbul governor announced, as quoted by Reuters.
The 13 dead foreigners were five Saudis, two Iraqis, one Ukrainian, one Iranian, an Uzbek, a Tunisian, a Hashemite and a Chinese. Three of them also had Turkish citizenship.
The source also informs that 239 injured have been reported. Other 109 wounded have already been discharged.
The triple suicide bombing took place on Istanbul’s Ataturk airport on Tuesday night. The explosions were reportedly suicide bomb attacks.
The attack on Europe’s third-busiest airport was the deadliest in a series of suicide bombings this year in Turkey, part of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State, according to Reuters.
One attacker opened fire in the departures hall with an automatic rifle, before all three blew themselves up in or around the arrivals hall a floor below, as witnesses and officials reported.
Video footage showed one of the attackers inside the terminal building being shot, apparently by a police officer, before falling to the ground as people scattered. The attacker then blew himself up around 20 seconds later.