Update - Dozens Of Casualties İn Blast At Ankara Train Station

An explosion hit Ankara train station Saturday morning leaving dozens of people dead and injured, according to sources.



An Anadolu Agency correspondent at the scene said at least 10 people were killed in the blast and many wounded.



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.



Emergency services had raced to the scene following the blast at 10.05 a.m. local time (0705GMT).



Many people had gathered outside the station for a demonstration to be held in nearby Sihhiye Square. The rally, organized by the Confederation of Public Sector Trades' Unions (KESK), was to call for an end to the renewed conflict between the terrorist organization PKK and the Turkish state.



Eye witnesses said there were two consecutive blasts and there was an unconfirmed report that at least one suicide bomber was responsible.



The blast occurred amid fresh violence between the PKK and the Turkish state and as Turkey prepares for a general election on Nov. 1. - Ankara