Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay said on Sunday that the death toll from the car bombs in Hatay's Reyhanlı district has risen to 46. Atalay said that more than 100 people were injured and among them 51 are still being treated at hospitals.

The district on Turkish-Syrian border has been hosting tens of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeding from the conflict environment in Syria for the last two years. The district was hit on Saturday by two deadly explosions which caused a great panic and tension in the region with local people reportedly trying to leave the town.

Among those killed in the twin-blasts, those identified have been delivered to their families. Funeral ceremonies have begun before the burial of some of them at Asri Cemetery.

Police teams are continuing their investigation at the scene.

Speaking after the explosions, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that the attacks might have been carried out by "those who don’t accept the Kurdish resolution process currently going on in the country".

Interior Minister Muammer Güler also claimed that the attacks were aimed at the resolution process in search of a solution to the Kurdish question.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç said “Bashar al-Assad with his Mukhabarat is the usual suspect in planning and carrying out such an attack”.

On the other hand, the Criminal Court of Reyhanlı imposed a broadcast ban on written and online media organs concerning the deadly attacks, forbidding the broadcast of any kind of information about the explosions.

Fourteen people had been killed in another deadly attack in February at the Cilvegözü border gate in the district of Reyhanlı. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.