At least 40 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in a double car bomb attack in a Turkish town near the border with Syria.
The explosions hit the town of Reyhanli, just across the border from Syria's Idlib province, and suspicion immediately fell on the war-torn country.
The cars containing the bombs are reportedly Syrian and witnesses said locals are attacking them and seeking out Syrian nationals for revenge.
One of the car bombs exploded outside the town hall while the other went off outside the post office, Turkey interior minister Muammer Guler said.
Health minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said at least 15 ambulances were helping the injured.
Photojournalist Bradley Secker told Sky News there were two cars with Syrian registrations at the scene being attacked by locals.
Tensions flared between the Syrian regime and Turkey after shells fired from Syria landed on the Turkish side, prompting Germany, the Netherlands and the United States to send two batteries of Patriot air defence missiles each to protect their Nato ally.
There are definitely more than 40 people dead. I live in İstanbul and I saw couple of photos of the streets in Reyhanli, and they were all destroyed. Also, there are so many people lost and we don't know if they are dead or alive so..
RIP to the victims..
Sadly it will probably get 0.1% of the media coverage the Boston bombings got, even though there were 38 more victims.
My city's local news focuses primarily on what happens in my local area. My country's national news focuses primarily on what happens nationally. And so I would expect what happens domestically to have far more press than what happens somewhere foreign. I don't find anything wrong with that.
that's horrible..
I don't even care for those countries anymore.
Things are getting out of hand.