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Blast Damages US Embassy in Turkey

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Reuters

February 01, 2013

Smoke rose from a side entrance to the U.S. embassy in Ankara on Friday after an explosion which damaged the doorway and sent debris flying into the street.

A Reuters witness saw one wounded person being lifted into an ambulance as police cordoned off the area.

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