{"id":47436,"date":"2014-02-17T16:59:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T14:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=47436"},"modified":"2014-02-17T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T15:22:08","slug":"turkey-istanbul-explosionheavy-explosion-center-of-istanbul-dozens-people-injured-breaking-news-47436","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-istanbul-explosionheavy-explosion-center-of-istanbul-dozens-people-injured-breaking-news-47436\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Istanbul Explosion:Heavy explosion center of Istanbul dozens people injured \/ Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Huge explosion in the center of Istanbul,\u00a0officials say natural gas leak.<\/h1>\n

An explosion tore through a residential building near central Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Monday, injuring several people, broadcaster CNN Turk reported.<\/p>\n

Television footage showed windows blown out of several multi-storey buildings on the narrow side street. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear, but some media reports said it was believed to have been caused by a natural gas leak.<\/p>\n

Many people were injured and ambulances were rushing to the scene<\/p>\n

Doors blew doors open on Siraselviler street leading down from Taksim Square, followed by a loud blast and clouds of acrid smoke.<\/p>\n

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The station quoted Istanbul’s governor, Huseyin Avni Mutlu, as saying the explosion is believed to have been caused either by a natural gas leak or a gas canister.<\/p>\n

The explosion gutted the building, shattered the windows of homes and overturned a car in the street, NTV video footage showed.<\/p>\n

Windows in several multi-storey buildings were blown out and a car tipped onto its side by the force of the blast, which could be heard from across the Bosphorus Strait dividing the city of almost 15 million people.<\/p>\n

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