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At least 22 of 51 Turkey wedding bomb blast victims were under 14

At least 22 of the 51 victims of the suicide bomb attack at a Turkish wedding were under the age of 14.

The attack, which took place in the city of Gaziantep, is suspected to have been carried out by a suicide bomber aged between 12 and 14 with links to so-called Islamic State.

It is the latest in a surge of violence this week in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast.

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Turkish suicide bomber 'was child as young as 12'

A suicide bomber who killed 51 people at a wedding in Turkey last night may have been as young as 12 years old, the country's president has said.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blamed the so-called Islamic-State militant group for the attack in Gaziantep, close to the border with Syria.

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