Guard shoots man at Ukrainian Consulate in Turkey
March 9, 2010 by Fatima Paracha
Filed under Asia, Europe, General
Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler said on Tuesday that a security officer guarding the Ukrainian Consulate in Istanbul shot and injured a man who claimed to be carrying a bomb.
Guler said the man, a Turk, tried to enter the building because of a personal grievance concerning his wife in Ukraine and that it was not a terrorist attack.
The man was hospitalized with injuries that were not life-threatening, Guler said.
Bomb squads were called to examine a package the man was carrying, he stated.
"There is no political motive, it is not a terrorist event," Guler said. Police have launched an investigation, he said.
NTV television said the man, aged 29, had been expelled from Ukraine.