Bomb Blast Targetting Public Bus Leaves 5 Dead In Turkey

A bomb blast near a public bus in Turkey on Saturday morning has left at least 5 people dead and another 25 people injured.

The car explosion seemed to target a public bus carrying off-duty soldiersĀ in the central province of Kayseri. The incident comes just a week after a bomb explosion at the Besiktas stadium in Istanbul left 44 people dead and 155 people injured.Ā 

A Kurdish militant group called the Kurdish Freedom Hawks claimed responsibility for last weekā€™s bombings but no group has yet claimed responsibility for Saturdayā€™s bombing.

AP reports that the office of Turkish prime minister Binali Yildirim imposed a temporary blackout on coverage of the explosion, urging the media to refrain from causing ā€œfear in the public, panic and disorder and which may serve the aims of terrorist organizationsā€.