A bomb attack targeted Turkish police in a central Istanbul district on Tuesday, leaving several people wounded, the state-run TRT television reported.
The remote-controlled bomb exploded as a service shuttle carrying police officers was passing in the Beyazit district of Istanbul, the TRT reported.
Ambulances and fire engines were dispatched to the scene. Five people were injured according to initial findings, the Dogan news agency reported.
Reports said the explosion took place close to the Vezeciler metro station, which is within walking distance of some of the main sights of the historical centre including the Suleymaniye Mosque.
Pictures showed that nearby shops had their front windows smashed out by the force of the blast.
Since the start of the year, Turkey has been hit by a sequence of attacks that have rattled citizens and also caused tourism to plummet.
Two separate blasts in Ankara claimed by the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) - a radical splinter group of the better-known outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - earlier this year claimed dozens of lives.
Istanbul Küçükçekmece'de metrobüs yoluna giren hafriyat kamyonu metrobüsle çarpisti. (??: Cihat Özsoy) pic.twitter.com/lBTQrUOTnPLast month, at least eight people including soldiers were wounded by a remotely detonated car bomb aimed at a military vehicle in Istanbul that was claimed by the PKK.
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