Istanbul bomb afterwards

Lucas Farioli / Istanbul

This video shows the afterwards of the explosion in Istanbul's Taksim Square last Sunday October 31st. The sequence has been recorded and edited by us and published by Latin American and Spanish media in El Pais and Pagina/12.

A suicide bomber identified as Vedat Acar and a member of the outlawed group Hawks for Kurdistan Freedom (TAK), believed to be a PKK faction; blew himself up in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, wounding 32 people, including 15 policemen, on the final day of a cease-fire by an outlawed terrorist group.
Istanbul Police Chief Hüseyin Çapkın told to CNN TÜRK that the bomber “tried but failed to get into a parked police van and detonated the bomb just outside the vehicle” Anti-riot police units are generally stationed at Taksim Square, at the heart of Istanbul’s social and economic centre, in case of illegal demonstrations.
Seventeen passersby were also injured in the attack in addition to the 15 policemen, Istanbul Mayor Hüseyin Avni Mutlu said. There has been no casualties and of the injured, 23 people were treated in hospitals and sent home the same day.
“None of the injured people face a life-threatening risk. The investigation is ongoing,” said the country’s head police chief, Oğuz Kaan Köksal, who came to Istanbul from Ankara following the bombing.