Gunman opens fire in Istanbul
The aftermath of a shooting spree in Istanbul's historic Topkapi palace.
A gunman opened fire with a pump-action rifle in the courtyard of the Ottoman palace, a top tourist destination, wounding two people.
Turkish security forces shot and killed the gunman after a one-hour siege.
One witness saw everything.
(SOUNDBITE) (Turkish) UNIDENTIFIED EYEWITNESS, SAYING:
"I saw him. When I took out my mobile to call the police he started firing. We saw two people wounded. We carried them into ambulances."
Anatolian news agency said a soldier and a private security worker were wounded.
Turkey's Interior Minister said the gunman was a Libyan national born in 1975.
Travis Brecher, Reuters
A gunman opened fire with a pump-action rifle in the courtyard of the Ottoman palace, a top tourist destination, wounding two people.
Turkish security forces shot and killed the gunman after a one-hour siege.
One witness saw everything.
(SOUNDBITE) (Turkish) UNIDENTIFIED EYEWITNESS, SAYING:
"I saw him. When I took out my mobile to call the police he started firing. We saw two people wounded. We carried them into ambulances."
Anatolian news agency said a soldier and a private security worker were wounded.
Turkey's Interior Minister said the gunman was a Libyan national born in 1975.
Travis Brecher, Reuters