(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency) A suspected suicide bomber who killed 32 people in southeastern Turkey this week was a Turkish citizen who had illegally traveled to Syria last year, a senior government official told Reuters on Wednesday.
The bomb attack, blamed on ISIS, in Suruc, near the Syrian border, targetted a group of mostly university-age activists who had planned to visit the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, beseiged for months by ISIS until January.
The suspect, a 20-year-old ethnic Kurd from the southeastern town of Adiyaman, also had links with another alleged bomber who attacked a pro-Kurdish political rally days before a June 7 general election, the official said.
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