A gunman who opened fire in Istanbul's Topkapi Palace tourist attraction Wednesday used a car registered in neighbouring Syria, Turkey's interior minister said.
"It had a Syrian registration plate. It belongs to someone else, but the links are not very clear," Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin told a press conference. He said that the despite the registration, the man, who was shot dead by police after wounding two people, was a Libyan national who had entered the country on Sunday.
A man armed with a shotgun opened fire in a tourist area of Istanbul early Wednesday, wounding two people, local media reported.
The man shouted "Allah Akbar" (God is great) before shooting, Turkey's NTV television quoted witnesses as saying.
The incident happened in Sultanahmet, the heart of historic old Istanbul, which is visited by thousands of tourists every day.
The man was believed to have got inside the Ottoman palace of Topkapi, one of the city's main tourist attractions, before he opened fire.
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