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2 dead after blast at US Embassy in Turkey

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    Amy Kellogg reports from London, England

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A lot of breaking news this morning on a Friday another US embassy is under attack this time in Turkey.

Reports of a homicide bombers setting off an explosive device.

Killing himself and at least one other person this is brand new video.

Showing chaos at the scene emergency crews responding.

As they picked through the rubble in the aftermath on the ground there this is a story we're just working through right now but.

There's a lot of news pop.

And good morning I'm Bill Hemmer we'll get to all of -- today good morning and morning good morning everybody I'm Martha MacCallum -- the details on this are still very fluid.

We're getting some reports that the blast went off inside -- security checkpoint.

At the entrance to the embassy Amy Kellogg watching it all from London now has there been a claim of responsibility.

Or not -- Bill and not yet but the Turkish Prime Minister air Dejuan has confirmed it was in fact suicide bombing.

Now of course there are lots of groups who may have been behind this attack outside of -- Or at the US embassy and Craig could've been an Islamist type of group.

Operating in Turkey we have seen that in the past in 2003 there were some very dramatic attacks.

On synagogues at the British consulate in Istanbul and also at the HSBC bank headquarters there.

Kurdish rebels Kurdish separatists.

Set off bombs periodically in Turkey.

Typically in the southern part of Turkey but they are quite active and there's also been some resistance to the deployment.

US patriot antimissile batteries that have just been put in place to protect Turkish population centers from possible attacks from Syria.

I just got a note from the deputy foreign minister of Turkey saying that their hearts and minds -- with the embassy staff right now in Ankara and that the Foreign Ministry will be.

Issuing some sort of statement as soon as possible.

One dead that suicide bomber and a Turkish guard.

At the checkpoint aren't very are there reports of any threats against the embassy this is a pretty secure part of the city.

-- -- and that's the thing it's -- -- to see this sort of thing happen in the beating heart of the Turkish capital which is.

So very secured -- a lot of police officers around.

The embassy is very close to that.

To the Turkish parliament so it's not what -- expect here we don't know that there were any threats.

About we do know that Turkey is it.

On the edge these days with the conflict.

In Syria right on its border and so many other things been going on that we did not hear.

Bill of any sort of threat aren't Amy Kellogg thank you work your sources will be back in touch in London here's -- now with more.

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