Security outside police station where alleged New Year nightclub attacker detained

Record ID: 164387

  • Title: Security outside police station where alleged New Year nightclub attacker detained
  • Date: 16th January 2017
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (JANUARY 17, 2017) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) VARIOUS OF EXTERIORS OF ISTANBUL POLICE DEPARTMENT WHERE ALLEGED ISTANBUL NIGHTCLUB ATTACKER IS BEING HELD VARIOUS OF SIGN OF ISTANBUL POLICE DEPARTMENT VARIOUS OF EXTERIORS OF THE BUILDING POLICEMEN STANDING BY THE VAN BEHIND FENCES VARIOUS OF ARMOURED POLICE VEHICLE PARKED BEHIND FENCES VARIOUS OF SIGN OF ISTANBUL POLICE DEPARTMENT VIEW OF THE BUILDING
  • Embargoed: 30th January 2017 23:39
  • Keywords: attack security detained nightclub
  • Location: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
  • City: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice
  • Reuters ID: LVA0015ZC0JT3
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The gunman suspected of killing 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day was being held at Istanbul police station after he was caught in the city's Esenyurt district, media reports said on Tuesday (January 17).
    The man, who media quoted police as saying had operated under the cover name Abu Muhammed Horasani, was caught in a hideout with his four-year-old son, Hurriyet newspaper said. The reports could not immediately be confirmed.
    Horasani was described as being of Uzbek origin by the Haberturk website, which said he was caught at a housing complex in Esenyurt district, on the European side of the city.
    According to state-run Anadolu news agency, five people were detained in the operation, including the alleged perpetrator, a man of Kyrgyz origin and three women. It said simultaneous raids were being conducted on other cells linked to the group.
    Dozens of people have previously been detained in connection with the attack for which Islamic State has claimed responsibility, saying it was revenge for Turkish military involvement in Syria.
    On January 1, the attacker shot his way into the Reina nightclub then opened fire with an automatic rifle, reloading his weapon half a dozen times and shooting the wounded as they lay on the ground.
    The shooting in Istanbul's Ortakoy neighbourhood, an upscale district on the Bosphorus shore, came after a year in which NATO member Turkey was shaken by a series of attacks by radical Islamist and Kurdish militants and by a failed coup.
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