Several dead in Turkey blast near wedding in Gaziantep

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Image caption A man and woman mourn one of the blast victims in Gaziantep

An explosion has caused deaths and many injuries near a wedding in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep, officials say.

Security sources quoted by Reuters news agency said eight people were killed and 60 injured.

Gaziantep Governor Ali Yerlikaya told Turkey"s Anadolu news agency that the "terror attack" took place in Akdere, in the city"s Sahinbey district.

Gaziantep is about 64km (40 miles) from the Syrian border. A suicide bomber killed two policemen there in May.

"There are people who lost their lives and we have initial information suggesting it was a bomb attack," said Turkish MP Mehmet Erdogan of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

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Image caption Turkish video showed crowds around some victims on stretchers

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Image caption An injured woman on a stretcher is carried into an ambulance

Southern Turkey has been hit by several deadly blasts over the past year, linked either to Kurdish separatist militants or so-called Islamic State (IS).

Often the attacks were linked to developments in the war raging in Syria.

In northern Syria, just south of Gaziantep, there has been heavy fighting between Syrian Kurdish YPG forces and IS jihadist militants.

The border town of Kobane was wrested back from IS control by Kurdish-led forces in January 2015, after months of bitter fighting.

There has been a spate of bombings in eastern Turkey in recent months blamed on the rebel Kurdistan Workers" Party (PKK).

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