Bomber, guard killed in US embassy attack

A suicide bomber has carried out an attack at an entrance to the United States embassy in Ankara, the Turkish capital, killing himself and a guard.
The bomber’s device went off as he was going through an X-ray machine at a security gatehouse, Sky sources said.
Turkish interior minister, Muammer Guler, said the attacker was a “militant” connected to a banned far-left group in the country.
He reportedly was a member of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) and spent time in prison on terrorism-related charges.
He was believed to be aged about 30 and used plastic explosives in the embassy atrocity.
The DHKP-C is a Marxist-Leninist group that has claimed responsibility for suicide bombings against police stations in recent years. There have been no claims of responsibility for Friday’s attack.
Francis Ricciardione, the US ambassador to Turkey, said a guard was killed in the blast and a Turkish citizen was wounded.
The United States State Department said the explosion occurred on the perimeter of the embassy.
“We can confirm a terrorist blast at a checkpoint on the perimeter of our embassy compound in Ankara, Turkey, at 1.13pm local time, or 6:13 am ET,” spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, said.