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(CNN)At least 39 people were killed and at least 69 wounded in an attack in a nightclub early Sunday as they were celebrating the new year, Turkey’s Interior Minister said.
“We are face to face with a terror attack,” Interior minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters.
Twenty-one of the dead have been identified, he said. Of those, 16 were foreign nationals and five were Turkish.
US officials also called it a terrorist attack, making it the first of 2017. Read more on CNN
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Istanbul, Turkey – Photos – Deadly shooting at Istanbul nightclub https://t.co/7TrvPJtD1W
— Vikki Briggs and son (@BriggsMzvikki) January 1, 2017
Eyewitness account from #Reina club attack in #Istanbul #Turkey. Translated from: https://t.co/y1RcZJCzjO pic.twitter.com/kk2VhT96Ii
— Diego Cupolo (@DiegoCupolo) January 1, 2017
BREAKING | “#ISIS calims responsibility for terror attack at #Reina club in #Istanbul” – Sputnik TR pic.twitter.com/xrBgU2Y5QM
— Vocal Europe (@thevocaleurope) January 1, 2017