A car bomb exploded in central Istanbul during the morning rush hour on Tuesday, killing two people, wounding others and wrecking a passing police bus near the main tourism district, news channel Haberturk reported. A parked car packed with explosives was detonated by remote control as the police bus drove by, CNN Turk said. It broadcast cell-phone footage of a blackened and mangled vehicle on the street as vendors peered out from a souvenir shop in a district near Istanbul university.



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