At least 50 people were killed on Saturday (August 20) when a suspected suicide bomber detonated his explosives among people dancing on the street at a wedding party in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep, the local governor's office said on Sunday (August 21).
President Tayyip Erdogan said it was likely that Islamic State militants had carried out the late-night attack, the deadliest bombing this year in Turkey, which faces threats from militants at home and across the border with neighbouring Syria.
The local governor's office said in a statement 50 people were killed in the bombing, and more wounded were still being treated in hospitals around the province.
Shattered glass and debris lined the narrow lane where the wedding party was attacked.
The area outside the house was cordoned off by police as onlookers gathered to inspect the damage.
At least 12 people were buried on Sunday (August 21), but other funerals will have to wait because many of the victims were blown to pieces and DNA forensics tests will be needed to identify them, security sources said.
Turkey is still tense after an attempted coup on July 15 which Ankara blames on U.S.-based preacher Fethullah Gulen. He has denied the charge.
Three suspected Islamic State suicide bombers killed 44 people at Istanbul's main airport in June, then the deadliest in a string of attacks in Turkey this year.
In October last year, suicide bombers killed at least 95 people when they attacked a rally of pro-Kurdish and labour activists outside Ankara's main train station.
Violence flared up again this week in the largely Kurdish southeast, with bomb attacks leaving 10 people dead in separate attacks, mostly police and soldiers, in an escalation that officials blamed on the PKK, Kurdish separatists militants.
