ISTANBUL: An explosion caused by a home-made bomb rocked an Istanbul metro station, triggering panic in the evening rush hour and wounding up to half a dozen people.
The local mayor and the state-run Anatolia news agency confirmed a bomb caused the blast, which came at a time of growing jitters over security in Istanbul and the risk of a militant attack in Turkey’s largest city.
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