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Summary A bomb exploded near Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan office in Ankara, lightly injuring one person.
The device, which was in a small plastic bottle, went off at around 0730 GMT, 20 metres (yards) from the building in the central Kizilay district, one and a half hour before a cabinet meeting to be headed by Erdogan.Police blocked access to the blast zone -- the entrance to the parking lot of the supreme court of appeals, fearing a second explosion, said NTV.The injured was a court employee, it added.Security guards at Erdogans office also rushed to the scene.The blast followed a remote-controlled bomb attack in Istanbul last week near Erdogans ruling party headquarters, which wounded 15 police officers and one civilian.In September a powerful bomb rocked the centre of the capital Ankara, killing three people and wounding at least 15 others.A bomb blast in May last year injured eight people near a bus stop in Etiler, an upscale district in Istanbul.
