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| A firefighter tries to extinguish burning vehicles after an explosion outside the governor's office in the southern city of Adana, Turkey, November 24, 2016. Ihlas News Agency via REUTERS |
An explosion killed two people and wounded more than 30 outside the governor's office in the southern Turkish city of Adana on Thursday, weeks after the United States warned of attacks by what it called extremist groups.
Video
footage showed a vehicle ablaze in the car park outside the building
and thick black smoke rising into the sky in the city, 40 km (25 miles)
from Turkey's Mediterranean coast. Windows were blown out and parts of
the facade of the building, roughly six floors high, were torn off.
The
state-run Anadolu agency quoted provincial governor Mahmut Demirtas as
saying two people were killed. Anadolu said the blast, which occurred
shortly after 8 a.m., came from a vehicle in front of the building.
Energy
Minister Berat Albayrak, the son-in-law of President Tayyip Erdogan,
who was in Adana for a
