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The 2008 Istanbul bombings occurred on July 27, 2008 when two explosions hit a busy shopping street in the Gungoren district of the city, leaving thirteen people dead and 70 people wounded.
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The first device exploded in a telephone booth, before a second bomb went off a few metres away just minutes later, local NTV television reported citing Turkish police.