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From the Liveblog of Monday, August 22, 2016

Turkish PM: ‘No clue’ who bombed Gaziantep wedding

22 August 2016, 8:56 pm

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Turkey has “no clue” about who was behind the attack on a Kurdish wedding in a city close to the Syrian border that left 54 people dead, the prime minister says, after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had claimed the suicide bomber was a child aged between 12-14 acting on orders of Islamic State.

“We do not have a clue about who the perpetrators behind the attack were. Early information on who did the attack, in what organization’s name, is unfortunately not right,” Prime Minister Binali Yildirim tells reporters in Ankara.

The shoe of a young victim and a piece of metal lay near the scene just hours after Saturday's bomb attack in Gaziantep, southeastern Turkey, early Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016, targeting an outdoor wedding party in southeastern Turkey killing dozens of people and wounding dozens more. (IHA via AP) — The shoe of a young victim and a piece of metal lay near the scene just hours after Saturday’s bomb attack in Gaziantep, southeastern Turkey, early Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016, targeting an outdoor wedding party in southeastern Turkey killing dozens of people and wounding dozens more. (IHA via AP)

— AFP

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