Families identify victims of Istanbul attack

Record ID: 162935

  • Title: Families identify victims of Istanbul attack
  • Date: 2nd January 2017
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (JANUARY 2, 2017) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF MORGUE AT TURKISH FORENSICS INSTITUTE SIGN READING (Turkish): "TURKISH FORENSICS INSTITUTE" TURKISH FLAG SAUDI MAN OUTSIDE MORGUE LOOKING TO IDENTIFY WHO IS BELIEVED TO BE HIS RELATIVE VARIOUS OF WOMAN WHO IS BELIEVED TO BE THE WIFE OF LEBANESE VICTIM HAYKAL MOUSALLEM WALKING OUT OF MORGUE AND HEADING TO SIT ON BENCH WOMAN SURROUNDED BY RELATIVES OR FRIENDS SITTING ON BENCH VARIOUS OF WOMAN WALKING OUT TO LEAVE, DECLINING INTERVIEWS WOMAN GETTING INTO CAR CAR LEAVING VARIOUS OF RELATIVE OF A TURKISH VICTIM, ARRIVING AT MORGUE VARIOUS OF MAN STANDING OUTSIDE (SOUNDBITE) (Turkish) UNNAMED RELATIVE OF A TURKISH VICTIM, SAYING: "He was born in 1978. He was married and he had three daughters. (Reporter asking: you must be shocked?) Of course. Of course. But this is destiny. God (wanted this). (Reporter asking: "When did he come to Istanbul?") I don't know that. Thank you." VARIOUS OF MAN WALKING TOWARDS MORGUE BUILDING
  • Embargoed: 17th January 2017 09:07
  • Keywords: Turkey attack gunfire wounded casualties nightclub gun attack newspapers nightclub morgue families
  • Location: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
  • City: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice
  • Reuters ID: LVA0015XDZKNB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Relatives waited outside Istanbul's Forensics institute on Monday (January 1) to identify and collect bodies of the victims of a gun attack at one of Istanbul's well-known nightclubs on New Year's Eve.
    A gunman opened fire on New Year revellers at a packed nightclub on the shores of Istanbul's Bosphorus waterway on Sunday (January 2) killing at least 39 people, including many foreigners, then fled the scene.
    Nationals of Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Lebanon, Libya, Israel and Belgium were among those killed, officials said. France said three of its citizens were wounded.
    Turkey is part of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State and launched an incursion into Syria in August to drive the radical Sunni militants from its borders. It also helped broker a fragile ceasefire in Syria with Russia.
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