One person has been killed and two injured in a gunfire incident near the building housing the Israeli consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul, according to media reports in Turkey.
The Reuters news agency video showed a police officer pulling out a gun and taking cover as gunshots resounded. One person was seen covered in blood. According to Al Jazeera, three people were involved in the gunfire.
The area where the consulate building is located, meanwhile, is densely populated and houses many businesses, including international ones, with “thousands” of people working nearby. The Israeli consulate is on the seventh floor of one tall building in the area, she added.
“The eyewitness that I spoke to… he was just smoking with his colleague, and three people came in a car, tried to open a gunfire, and then the security fired them back,” said an Al Jazeera journalist, reporting from Istanbul.
No Israeli diplomats are currently stationed at the consulate in Istanbul nor at the Israeili embassy in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. There are no details yet on the identity or motives of the attackers.
This is a developing story.
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