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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Sunday offered prayers for the victims of Saturday’s bombing in southern Turkey. At least 51 people were killed and 69 wounded – many of them seriously, in a suspected suicide bombing at a wedding party in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep. Speaking after the recitation of the Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis said, “Sad news has reached me about the bloody attack” that was carried out in “dear Turkey.” The Pope prayed for the victims and the injured, and "for the gift of peace for all."Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that the so-called Islamic State was the "likely perpetrator" of the bomb attack which may have been carried out by a suicide bomber as young as 12 years old. Listen to the report by Nathan Morley:
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Sunday offered prayers for the victims of Saturday’s bombing in southern Turkey. At least 51 people were killed and 69 wounded – many of them seriously, in a suspected suicide bombing at a wedding party in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep.
Speaking after the recitation of the Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis said, “Sad news has reached me about the bloody attack” that was carried out in “dear Turkey.” The Pope prayed for the victims and the injured, and "for the gift of peace for all."
Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that the so-called Islamic State was the "likely perpetrator" of the bomb attack which may have been carried out by a suicide bomber as young as 12 years old.
Listen to the report by Nathan Morley:
(Vatican Radio) Ukraine's military and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have accused each otherof violating a cease-fire agreement amid escalating fighting that has worried international monitors and the West.The latest clashes have also undermined efforts to treat those wounded in a conflict that has killed nearly 10,000 people. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Anxious Ukrainian soldiers watched a burning building where vehicles have been destroyed. The footage released byUkraine's Defence Ministry claimed to show the aftermath of recent shelling by Russian-backed separatists. Since Fridayat least two soldiers were reportedly killed, and eight wounded.Additionally, several civilians were injured. Yet, the shelling here on the outskirts of rebel controlled Donetsk hasmade it more difficult to treat and rescue injured people suggested a soldier. “Sadly, they hit directly a Ukrainian medicalbattalion car," he said while watching the burning bu...
(Vatican Radio) Ukraine's military and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have accused each other
of violating a cease-fire agreement amid escalating fighting that has worried international monitors and the West.
The latest clashes have also undermined efforts to treat those wounded in a conflict that has killed nearly 10,000 people.
Listen to the report by Stefan Bos:
Anxious Ukrainian soldiers watched a burning building where vehicles have been destroyed. The footage released by
Ukraine's Defence Ministry claimed to show the aftermath of recent shelling by Russian-backed separatists. Since Friday
at least two soldiers were reportedly killed, and eight wounded.
Additionally, several civilians were injured. Yet, the shelling here on the outskirts of rebel controlled Donetsk has
made it more difficult to treat and rescue injured people suggested a soldier. “Sadly, they hit directly a Ukrainian medical
battalion car," he said while watching the burning building under cover of darkness.
"The fire and the flames spread to our car given to us by volunteers to help the guys. Now I have no idea how we will
move around.”
REBELS ACCUSE KIEV
But rebels have also accused Ukrainian government forces of violating a fragile ceasefire. They said the Ukrainian military launched
more than 180 shells on rebel-held areas in Donetsk over the weekend.
Ukraine's army countered Sunday that the separatists fired 71 times at various government-controlled areas near
the front line over the past 24 hours.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has accused Russia, who he refers to as "the enemy", of stirring tensions by
supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine and with actions in the Crimean Peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014.
The Kremlin has denied the charges. However the United States has urged both Ukraine and Russia to show restraint
amid international concerns about a possible wider military conflict between the two neighbors after Ukraine's president
warned of a full-scale "Russian invasion".
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BEIRUT (AP) -- The suicide attacker who detonated his explosives amid an outdoor Kurdish wedding party in southeastern Turkey, killing at least 51 people, was an Islamic State group child as young as 12 years old. The extremist group has a history of using children as weapons, sending them to their death strapped with explosives and putting them on front lines in Iraq and Syria....
