ISTANBUL, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) — Two suspects of the armed assault on an Italian church in Türkiye’s largest metropolis Istanbul on Sunday have been confined, mentioned Turkish Inside Minister Ali Yerlikaya.
“I congratulate our Istanbul police division and the heroic law enforcement officials who recognized and captured the perpetrators,” Yerlikaya acknowledged on the social media platform X, previously often called Twitter.
The assailants attacked the Santa Maria Church within the Sariyer district on the European facet of town at round 11:40 a.m. native time (0840 GMT), killing one particular person throughout a Sunday Mass.
Earlier within the day, Istanbul Governor Davut Gul mentioned the useless particular person was a 52-year-old Turkish citizen.
After the incident, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his condolences throughout a telephone name with the priest of the Italian church.
