Istanbul explosion: Woman arrested

The person who left the scene of a deadly bombing in Istanbul has been arrested.

Six people were killed, and 81 others wounded on Sunday when an explosion rocked a busy pedestrian street in Istiklal Avenue in central Istanbul..

A woman had been seen sitting on a bench for around 40 minutes before the explosion. She got up just after it occurred, and left.

According to Turkish news agency Anadolu, the country’s interior minister, Suleyman Soylu, said that person has now been arrested.

Istanbul governor Ali Yerlikaya has confirmed the names of those killed as Arzu Ozosoy and her daughter Yagmur Ucar, Yusuf Meydan and his daughter Ecrin Meydan, and Adem Topkara and his wife, Mukaddes Elif Topkara.

Turkey’s largest city, had been crowded as usual at the weekend with shoppers, tourists and families when the blast happened.

Footage taken moments after, shows panicked people running from the scene.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called the blast a “treacherous attack” and vowed its perpetrators would be punished. He said he did not yet know who was behind it, but that it had the “smell of terror”.