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Initially, a Sputnik correspondent in Ankara reported that a sound of explosion was heard in the city.
Social media users said that the blast was heard in many districts of the Turkish capital. There were also reports suggesting the gas cylinder exploded in one of the office buildings.
The internet users have uploaded the first photos taken at the site of the alleged explosion.
Comment: Update (Feb. 2): An explosion in an empty building of a local tax office in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Thursday was a terrorist attack carried out by suspects linked to the Kurdish leftist Democratic Union party, Ankara governor's office
said Friday.
"As a result of the on-site investigation of the explosion on February 1... evidence was found that an explosive device was used. The video footage from outdoor surveillance cameras was studied and it turned out that a suspicious man entered the building and left a bag, which presumably contained an explosive device, at the entrance," the governor's office said in a statement.
According to the statement, police on Friday launched the pursuit of the perpetrator of the attack identified during the investigation, as well as two of his accomplices.
"During the pursuit, one of the suspects, who carried false ID papers, was killed. He was identified as Ersen Ertogan born in 1991 in the province of Mardin, who was trained in a camp in a YPG-held area in Syria and entered Turkey illegally," the statement said.
Comment: Update (Feb. 2): An explosion in an empty building of a local tax office in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Thursday was a terrorist attack carried out by suspects linked to the Kurdish leftist Democratic Union party, Ankara governor's office said Friday.