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Ghana consoles Turkey over airport terror attack

Xinhua, June 30, 2016 Adjust font size:

Ghana's Foreign Minister Hanna Tetteh consoled on Wednesday consoled Turkey over a terror attack that claimed dozens of lives at Turkey's Ataturk Airport in Istanbul.

Forty-one people were killed and more than two hundred others injured in two explosions that hit the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul on Tuesday evening and involved three suicide bombers, forcing the suspension of all flights.

"Our deepest condolences to the Government and people of Turkey after the attack on Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul," she stated on her Tweeter handle @Hanna Tetteh.

"This attack is on Turkey and also international travel and connecting people. Many Ghanaians travel via Istanbul. You are in our prayers," Hanna Tetteh said. Endit