Several people were injured by an explosion in the northwestern Turkish city of Bursa today, in what appears to be the latest in a spate of suicide bombings across the country.  

A Dogan news agency correspondent, speaking on the CNN Turk television station, said he had seen one body and 10 people wounded following the explosion.

Initial reports from state broadcaster TRT had attributed the blast to a natural gas explosion, but intelligence sources subsequently claimed it was a terrorist act. The Governor of Bursa subsequently confirmed it was the work of a suicide bomber. 

Turkey has been hit by a series of suicide bombings this year, including two in Istanbul blamed on Islamic State, and two in the capital Ankara which were claimed by a Kurdish militant group.

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