No fewer than five people have been killed and 22 injured after an attack by gunmen at a state-owned aviation company near Ankara, Turkey.
According to Turkey’s vice president, four of the victims were Turkish Aerospace Industries employees, while another was a taxi passenger.
Officials have branded it as a “terror attack,” with Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya claiming that two gunmen, a male and a woman, have been “neutralised.”
Yerlikaya claims they were “most likely” linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a Kurdish rebel group designated as a “terrorist organisation” by the UK government, the US, and the European Union.
Another piece of footage analysed by BBC Verify appears to show two gunmen approaching an entry to the TAI facility earlier today.
The video shows a group walking down an entry lane at the property, past a stationary yellow automobile. The car’s front doors open, and two occupants emerge, each brandishing a rifle.
It is unclear what happens next because the car masks movements, but one of the people strolling by collapses on the ground while others escape, some with their hands lifted to their heads.
A body is seen in the same place, adjacent to the yellow automobile, in separate CCTV footage acquired later.
Earlier local media reports suggest that the suspects had killed the taxi driver and taken his vehicle to carry out the attack.
Speaking on the attack, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya says seven special ops forces members were among the 22 who were injured in the attack.
He also said that two attackers, a woman and a man, had been “neutralized,” adding that the attack had most likely involved the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK.
The PKK is banned as a terrorist organisation in Turkey, the US, and the UK and has been fighting against the Turkish state since the 1980s for greater rights for the country’s significant Kurdish minority.
