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Terrifying moment ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up in Istanbul airport terminal in Brussels-style attack that left at least 41 dead and 239 injured

By Imogen Calderwood and Jennifer Newton and Flora Drury For Mailonline

Published: 14:27 EST, 28 June 2016 | Updated: 06:50 EST, 29 June 2016

Source: Turkey airport attack in Istanbul blamed on ISIS with up to 50 dead | Daily Mail Online

‘There was blood and body parts everywhere’:

• WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT 
• Three explosions rocked Istanbul’s Ataturk airport in a co-ordinated suicide attack at  8pm GMT last night
• Eyewitness saw a police officer wrestle attacker to the ground just moments before the blast shook the terminal 
• A total of 41 people are confirmed dead however this total is expected to rise to 50, according to Turkish officials
• Reports claimed that ISIS is to blame for the attack, according to Turkish news agencies citing police sources
• Turkish Airlines is the official airline partner of the Euro 2016 football tournament currently being held in France

Witnesses have described the terrifying moment three suicide bombers launched a co-ordinated attack on Istanbul airport that has left at least 41 dead saying there was blood and body parts everywhere.

Shocking footage has shown an explosion at the door to the arrivals hall by a suicide bomber before another two attackers snuck into the building and dentonated their devices.

Twenty-three of the victims were Turkish citizens and 13 foreign nationals were also among the casualties, an official has said. A total of 41 people have already been confirmed dead, but Turkish officials said that number is expected to rise to 50.

This morning the airport has re-opened while investigators piece together what happened, just hours after the attacks, which also left 239 people injured.

One of the passengers who was travelling through Ataturk airport at the time of the blasts was Laurence Cameron, a British cameraman who was travelling from Latvia to Izmir, on the Turkish coast.

Footage appears to show the moment one of the three bombs was detonated in the devastating suicide attack at Turkey’s Ataturk airport

One of the three terrorists that struck at Turkey’s Ataturk Airport wields an AK-47 as he carries out his killing spree (left), while a man carries a wounded boy away from the airport (right)

Paramedics and special forces officers at the scene help the more than 140 wounded at the airport. At least 41 others were killed

An AK-47 can be seen lying abandoned on the floor, after three suicide bombers set off blasts at the airport as police returned fire

Bodies lie on the pavement outside Istanbul’s international airport after explosions and gunfire shook the terminal

Turkish security agencies and emergency services gathered outside Ataturk airport after it was hit by a suicide bomb attack

Desperate passengers embrace as they gather in shock outside the terminal after the airport was evacuated and all flights were grounded

A wounded girl is carried on a stretcher into the Bakirkoy Sadi Konuk Hospital after being injured in the blasts at Ataturk Airport

Relatives of those who were caught up in the bombings at Ataturk airport wait outside the Bakirkoy Sadi Konuk Hospital for news on their loved ones

A mother who lost one of her children in the attack has to be helped from the ground outside a forensic medicine building close to Istanbul Airport

And he believes believes his plane had arrived just as the bombs began to detonate.

As he walked into the terminal, unaware of what had just happened, he was met with chaos, panic and fear.

‘It must have been just as we touched down,’ he told MailOnline. ‘I did not even hear the explosions, but as I walked out and round the corner, the whole building was running screaming towards me.

‘It was just mass panic, guards running around with guns.’

Mr Cameron, originally from Kent, was stuck for half-an-hour, waiting at customs, before he and his fellow passengers were allowed through and out the terminal.

However, the only way to leave the building was to go through the very place where the bombs had been detonated less than an hour before.

‘There was blood on the floor. It was just horrendous. Debris everywhere. A lot of the ceiling panels had fallen down, smashed all over the floor.

‘Coming out to the taxi rank, it was just full of ambulances. Blood was smeared all up to the car park.

‘People were in tears, especially people with families. They were quite clearly traumatised. There was a lot of uncertainty, no one really knew what was going on. Were we safe where we were?’

He added: ‘There is nowhere to go but out through passport control [if you are in an airport terminal]. It’s not nice – it should be safe, but at that moment it was not.’

An aerial view of the airport shows where the suicide bombers are believed to have detonated their explosives, close to the entrance to the international arrivals terminal

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3664710/Two-explosions-gunfire-Istanbul-s-Ataturk-airport-cause-multiple-injuries.html

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