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Hundreds gather in Turkey to remember victims of suicide blasts

Hundreds of people have gathered in central Ankara to remember the victims of twin suicide blasts that struck the Turkish capital one week ago.

The crowd stood in silence at 10.04am, the time the bombs went off on October 10, killing more than 100 people.

Islamic State is the focus of investigations into the twin suicide bombing, the country's prime minister has said.

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Turkey officials: Death toll rises after Ankara bombings

Turkey's opposition pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said earlier that death toll in twin bomb attack 97, though this has since been revised down to 95 by the Turkish prime minister's office.

Earlier today the country's Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu told reporters that 86 people had been killed and 186 wounded, 28 of whom were in intensive care.

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