Three suicide bombers reportedly opened fire‚ then blew themselves up in Istanbul’s Ataturk airport in what Turkish authorities said was an attack by Islamic State militants.
Passengers were sent fleeing for cover in the airport’s departures hall when the bombers opened fire with automatic rifles before moving to the arrivals hall‚ where the bombs went off.
Paul Roos‚ a 77-year-old who was on his was home to South Africa after a holiday in southern Turkey‚ told Reuters he saw one of the attackers “randomly shooting”.
“He was wearing all black. His face was not masked‚” Roos said.
