30 people have been killed, 126 injured by two explosions near Ankara's main train station early Saturday, where the Confederation of Public Sector Trades' Unions (KESK) and other labor unions were planning to hold a "Labor, peace, democracy" rally at Sıhhiye Square to call for an end to the renewed conflict between the terrorist organization PKK and the Turkish state, local Daily Sabah reported.
Turkish government officials said the blast outside the main train station in the capital Ankara on Saturday was a "terrorist attack" and they were investigating claims that a suicide bomber was responsible.
Emergency services raced to the scene following the blast at 10.05 a.m. local time (0705GMT).
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Bodies lay in front of the station on Hipodrum Street, where people had started to arrive for a peace rally in Ankara.
Paramedics tended to the injured as a police helicopter circled overhead. Protest banners and flags littered the ground and members of the public helped carry the injured to ambulances and buses to take them to hospital
Two blasts were heard according witnesses.
The cause of the blast has not yet been specified, but some reports claim it was a suicide attack. Eye witnesses said there were two consecutive blasts.
An Anadolu Agency correspondent at the scene said there were bodies and wounded people lying in front of the station on Hipodrum Street, where people had started to arrive for a peace rally in Ankara.
Meanwhile, PM Ahmet Davutoğlu was briefed by the interior, health ministers about the bomb blast, and called for a meeting at 12 p.m. with Ankara governor, intelligence and police officials to discuss the attack.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan cancelled his program in Istanbul following the blasts, while CHP's Kılıçdaroğlu and HDP's Demirtaş cancelled all Saturday programs.
