Foreigners attacked Istanbul airport: officials

The three men who carried out Tuesday’s deadly attack on Istanbul airport were of Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationality, Turkish media and officials say. Turkey believes IS was behind the suicide gun and bomb attack that left 43 people dead and more than 230 hurt. Police carried out raids on Tuesday, detaining at least 13 […]

The three men who carried out Tuesday’s deadly attack on Istanbul airport were of Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationality, Turkish media and officials say.
Turkey believes IS was behind the suicide gun and bomb attack that left 43 people dead and more than 230 hurt.
Police carried out raids on Tuesday, detaining at least 13 suspects in Istanbul and more in the city of Izmir.
More details of the victims have emerged, many of them airport workers.
Some agencies named one of the men as Osman Vadinov, said to have crossed into Turkey from the IS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria in 2015. He is believed to be from the Russian Caucasus.
Turkish police detained 13 people, three of them foreigners, in raids across Istanbul in connection with Tuesday night’s attack.