Three explosions killed at least 28 people at Istanbul Ataturk airport
NEWARK -- The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has heightened its security presence at area airports Tuesday hours after a deadly terrorist bombing at Turkey's busiest airport, WABC 7 reported.
Officers with tactical weapons and equipment were dispatched at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty airports following three explosions at Istanbul Ataturk Airport, the world's 11th busiest. The bombings killed at least 28 people and wounded 60 more, CNN reported early Tuesday night. No one had yet claimed responsibilty.
"The agency continues to monitor the situation in Turkey and is collaborating with federal, state and local law enforcement partners to include the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force,the Port Authority in a statement quoted by WABC.
Three of the bombers were killed, CNN reported, including one attacker who opened fire with a machine gun before blowing himself up.
"It was just a massive crowd of screaming people. Some were falling over themselves," a traveler, Laurence Cameron, told CNN.
"A poor chap in a wheelchair was just left, and everyone just rushed to the back of the building, and then people ran the other way and no one really seemed to know what was going on," he said.
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