Among victims injured in Istanbul airport are two citizens of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

Date: 14:39, 29-06-2016.

Almaty. June 29. Silkroadnews – A citizen of Kyrgyzstan, 22-year-old Bakhtiar Yunusov is in the list of the victims injured in the terrorist attack in Istanbul airport, KyrTAG reports.

“According to the updated information by Kyrgyzstan’s Consulate General in Istanbul, among the victims there was one Kyrgyzstani citizen Bakhtiyar Yunusov, who got light penetrating wound of his left arm soft tissue. The consulate’s representatives visited the hospital where B. Yunusov receives medical care. According to them, today he will be released from the hospital,” Kyrgyzstan’s ministry of foreign affairs reported on Wednesday.

They also added, another victim, Rifat Salimov, is a citizen of Uzbekistan.

Earlier preliminary data said there were two citizens of Kyrgyzstan among the terrorist attack victims.

To remind there were two explosions at Istanbul airport on June 28. Turkish authorities reports the bombings were carried out by suicide-bombers. 36 people killed, more than 140 injured. The recent reports say, the attack on the airport was carried out by three suicide bombers. According to witnesses, one of them blew himself up in the parking in front of the airport, two others – in the international terminal building.

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