{"id":19506,"date":"2017-01-17T06:32:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T06:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=19506"},"modified":"2017-01-17T06:32:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T06:32:21","slug":"turkish-police-capture-suspected-new-years-nightclub-attacker-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/turkish-police-capture-suspected-new-years-nightclub-attacker-istanbul.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkish police capture suspected New Year’s nightclub attacker in Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turkish police capture suspected New Year’s nightclub attacker in Istanbul<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Turkish police capture suspected New Year’s nightclub attacker in Istanbul:-<\/strong> Turkish police have captured the suspected gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Day after a two-week nationwide manhunt, with state media saying he was seized along with four other suspects at a hideout in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n

State-run Anadolu news agency said the alleged attacker, whom it and other media named as Abdulgadir Masharipov, was detained with a man of Kyrgyz origin and three woman from Egypt, Senegal and Somalia in Istanbul’s Esenyurt district.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I congratulate our police who caught the perpetrator of the Ortakoy massacre,” Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus, who is also the government spokesman, said on social network Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Our war with terror and the powers behind it will continue to the end,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dozens of people have previously been detained in connection with the attack for which Islamic State has claimed responsibility, saying it was revenge for Turkish military involvement in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Jan. 1, the attacker shot his way into the Reina nightclub then opened fire with an automatic rifle, reloading his weapon half a dozen times and shooting the wounded as they lay on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

Turks as well as visitors from several Arab nations, India and Canada were among those killed in the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

The suspected gunman of Uzbek origin was caught in an apartment at a housing complex on the European side of Istanbul with his four-year-old son at around 11 pm (2000 GMT) on Monday, the Hurriyet newspaper website said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dogan news agency published a photo of the alleged attacker with a black eye, a cut above his eyebrow and bloodstains on his face and t-shirt. It broadcast video footage broadcast showing plain-clothes police leading a man wearing a white t-shirt to a waiting car.<\/span><\/p>\n

The suspect was being questioned at Istanbul police headquarters, while other people were detained in raids across the city targeting Uzbek Islamic State cells, Anadolu said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The shooting in Istanbul’s Ortakoy neighborhood, an upscale district on the Bosphorus shore, came after a year in which NATO member Turkey was shaken by a series of attacks by radical Islamist and Kurdish militants and by a failed coup.<\/span><\/p>\n

One security source said in the wake of the attack that the gunman appeared to have been well-versed in guerrilla warfare and may have trained in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

President Tayyip Erdogan has said the attack, which targeted a club popular with local celebrities and moneyed foreigners, had been being exploited to try to divide the largely Sunni Muslim nation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-americanapparel-layoffs-idUSKBN15025M<\/span><\/div>\n

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