Sunday, March 4, 2012

Turkey: Guard shoots man at Ukrainian Consulate

A security officer guarding the Ukrainian consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday shot and injured an armed man who claimed to be carrying a bomb, Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler said.

Guler said the man, a Turk, tried to enter the building because of a personal grievance concerning his wife in Ukraine and that it was not a terrorist attack.

The man was hospitalized with injuries that were not life-threatening, Guler said.

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