Official: Bombing Was Not a Suicide Attack

The bomb that destroyed a minibus in the popular Aegean beach resort town of Kusadasi, killing five people, was placed under a seat and detonated by timer or remote control, not by a suicide bomber, a regional governor said.

Bomb experts completed on-scene investigations and returned to Ankara, the capital, to evaluate the evidence, Aydin province Gov. Mustafa Malay said. “Right now, we have two possibilities,” he said. “The explosive was timed or that it was remote-controlled. There was no suicide bomber.”

No group has claimed responsibility for Saturday’s blast.