Turkey: 'Deadly' Bombing Outside US Embassy

A guard has reportedly been killed after a suicide bomb attack at an entrance to the US embassy in the Turkish capital.

The bomber's device went off as he was going though an X-ray machine at a security gatehouse, Sky sources said.

The embassy is on red alert and staff have gone into shelters, sources added.

Several other people were reportedly hurt in the attack in the city of Ankara.

An Associated Press journalist reported seeing a body in the street in front of a side entrance of the embassy.

A Reuters witness reported seeing one wounded person being lifted into an ambulance.

Police cordoned off the area following the explosion, which sent smoke and debris flying into the street.

TV footage showed a door blown out and masonry from the wall around it scattered, although there did not appear to be any more significant structural damage.

Damage can be seen at a side entrance of the embassy

Another journalist Ilnur Cevik told Sky News: "There was a huge bang which really shook everywhere."

He was in his car about 400 metres away from the US embassy when the blast happened.

There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, but Kurdish rebels and Islamic militants are active in Turkey.

Kurdish rebels, who are fighting for autonomy in the Kurdish-dominated southeast, have dramatically stepped up attacks in Turkey over the last year.

Also, homegrown Islamic militants tied to al Qaeda have carried out suicide bombings in Istanbul, killing 58, in 2003.

The targets were the British consulate, a British bank and two synagogues.

In 2008, an assault blamed on al Qaeda-affiliated militants outside the US Consulate in Istanbul left three attackers and three policemen dead.

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