CCTV footage of two ISIS suicide bombers has emerged showing how two bombers dived into the crowd and killed 102 people in Ankara in October 2015. No police units were seen around the meeting area and the pair had no difficulty getting to the spot.
On 10 October 2015, two ISIS bombers attacked people who had gathered for “Labor, Democracy and Freedom Rally” in front of Ankara’s Station Square. 102 were killed and hundreds were wounded in the attack.
More than two years after the attack a CCTV footage has emerged showing the two ISIS bombers getting to the Station Square without having to bypass any security checks.
The footage obtained by daily newspaper Evrensel shows ISIS members Yunus Emre Alagöz and an unidentified Syrian attacker getting out of a taxi near Turkish parliament entrance in Dikmen. The pair walks down to İsmet İnönü Boulevard until the Çankaya entrance of the Turkish parliament. Then they took a taxi to the Ankara Central Train Station and then walked till the meeting area.
Normally the security in the bombers’ route is very tight. But no policeman can be seen in the footage. The bombers didn’t even have to bypass a security check before carrying out the attack.
Also in similar occasions Turkish police set up checkpoints and search all people attending the meeting. But none was set on October 10, 2015. And no policemen were seen around at the time the attack took place.
The lack of security raised suspicions over Turkish police’s involvement in the bombing.
Another footage emerged last week showing Turkish police ignoring a bomb near the meeting area that killed 5 in Diyarbakır (Amed) on June 5, 2015.
