More than 30 people killed in blasts at Ankara train station

ANKARA, Oct 10 (KUNA) -- Twin explosions targeted a peace rally in Turkeyآ’s capital Ankara on Saturday, leaving ore than 30 people dead and 126 injured.
Anadolu news agency said the casualties - reported by the interior ministry - mostly consisted of people gathering outside the main train station to attend a lunchtime demonstration in the city center to call for an end to the renewed conflict between the terrorist organization PKK and the Turkish state.
Approximately 14,000 people are understood to have been in the area at the time of the explosions. Officers are working to confirm the number of casualties, a spokesperson for Ankara police said.
Following the attack, for which no group has claimed responsibility, bodies lay in front of the station on Hipodrum Street and paramedics tended to the injured as a police helicopter circled overhead.
Police later warned people to disperse over concerns of further explosions as rally organizers made pleas over loudhailers for people to give blood, the agency added.
The blast occurred amid renewed violence between the PKK and the Turkish state. Turkey is preparing for a general election on Nov. 1 to break the political deadlock that resulted from June's election, which was marred by violence including a bomb attack on a Peoples' Democratic Party rally that killed four people.
On his part, President Recep Erdogan called off his scheduled program in Istanbul following the attack and he was briefed by the ministers of interior and health on the developments.(end) rs.tg