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‘Heard a strange sound, shouted run’

AFP
Published : Jan 14, 2016, 6:09 am IST
Updated : Jan 14, 2016, 6:09 am IST

The guide of a group of Ger-man tourists who were targeted by a suicide bom-ber in Istanbul said she heard the moment the attacker released his expl-osive charge and then shouted “run!” to her clie-nt

A municipality worker cleans the pavement at the site of Tuesday’s explosion in  historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul - AP
 A municipality worker cleans the pavement at the site of Tuesday’s explosion in historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul - AP

The guide of a group of Ger-man tourists who were targeted by a suicide bom-ber in Istanbul said she heard the moment the attacker released his expl-osive charge and then shouted “run!” to her clie-nts, a report said on Wednesday. Turkish tour guide Sibel Satiroglu told the police she saw the moment the bomber detonated himself after blending into a group of 33 German citizens visiting the Obelisk of Theodos-ius, one of the city’s most eye-catching sites.

“I heard a ‘click’ sound while I was telling the group about the obelisk. I thought it (the sound) was strange and looked around,” she said, quoted by Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper.

“Among the group was a young bearded man who looked like a Turk. He had a innocent face and was wearing modern clothes. I saw the young man pull the pin and I shouted ‘Run!’ in German (“Lauft weg!”). Then we started to run away, and the bomb instantly exploded, “ she said. Along with several others, Ms Satiroglu herself was injured in the leg and suffered temporary hearing loss.

Hurriyet said the German group had on Monday evening checked in a boutique hotel in Galata district on the other side of the Golden Horn from Sultanahmet.

Location: Turkey, Istanbul