Fire breaks out at Ankara military post
ANKARA
DHA Photo
A fire
broke out at a military post in Ankara
today, with a number of explosions subsequently heard in the area, daily
Radikal has reported.
The blaze
broke out in a waste yard at the General Gökkartal military post in Ankara’s Etimesgut
district at around 5.30 p.m. and blasts followed the blaze.
The fire has
reportedly been brought under control.
Soldiers
were trying to keep journalists away from the area, prompting speculation that
the blast may have been at a munitions depot.
Twenty-five
soldiers were killed in a huge blast at a military munitions depot in in the
western province
of Afyonkarahisar last
September.
