An explosion in Ankara has claimed lives of 86 people, injuring another 186 according to officials. The blast took place near the city's central train station as people gathered for a rally organised by the leftist group. In a TV footage, people can be seen on the floor covered with blood, while their banner lies and flies around the ground.
The people are conducting a protest demanding the end to violence between the Kurdish separatist PKK militants and the Turkish government, and have scheduled the protest to start at 12:00 local time.
According to an amateur TV footage, the protesters could be seen singing and holding hands before the blast went off shortly after 10:00am. The bomb explosion is the deadliest ever on Turkish soil.
The Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has declared three days mourning for victims of the blast, and also said that the authorities have information that two men had carried out the attacks.
According to an eye witness, Murat Tasdemir , who had a chat with BBC, Selin Girit in Ankara said;
I lost two of my friends, They are now dead. Many of my friends are wounded. We had to carry the dead and the injured to the ambulances ourselves.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cancelled his Turkmenistan visit and tagged the bomb blast as a terrorism attack on the Turkish soil, and said the attack coming three-weeks to the inconclusive parliamentary election was "loathsome". Turkey citizen are asking that if the attack could happen in the city centre, how can the government provide security for the election coming in just three weeks?