![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/istanbul-bomb-suspect-admits-planting-deadly-explosive-fleeing-with-rose/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/newspress-collage-20413001-1668428126580.jpg&description=A WOMAN has confessed to planting a bomb that killed six people in Istanbul, police have said. Video shows the moment Ahlam Albashir was arrested and she was later paraded in handcuffs after she had been seen fleeing with a red rose in her hand. Ahlam Albashir was paraded in handcuffs after being arrested The moment gun toting cops arrested the suspect in her flat Police released images of a woman who was seen running away moments before the blast The woman suspect being dragged into custodyCredit: Twitter She is one of 22 suspects who have been arrestedCredit: Twitter Earlier CCTV images showed a suspect fleeing holding a red rose moments before a blast ripped through a packed shopping street, wounding at least another 81 people on Sunday afternoon. Turkish police have now named the suspect as Albashir is a Syrian national who a special intelligence officer by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party. Images also showed her on the floor of her flat with police officers pointing guns at her and camouflage trousers on the ground. Horrific images showed bodies strewn on Istiklal Avenue, central Istanbul's main shopping street near Taksim Square and among the dead are a young girl and her dad. Turkey's Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said a suspect was in custody and blamed Kurdish militants for the attack. Police said they have detained 47 suspects, including the person who had planted the bomb. Albashir was seen in purple hoodie was seen being arrested and later in handcuffs being bundled into a police station, followed by other suspects. "The person who dropped the bomb was detained by our General Directorate of Security," Soylu told TRT Haber. TV news showed images of a person, who appeared to be a woman, leaving a package below a raised flower bed on the historic street, a popular spot for shoppers and tourists. Hundreds of people fled the avenue after the blast on Sunday, as ambulances and police raced in. Survivor Massimo D'Angelo, 30, recalled the moment the bomb){kind=link}
A WOMAN has confessed to planting a bomb that killed six people in Istanbul, police have said.
Video shows the moment Ahlam Albashir was arrested and she was later paraded in handcuffs after she had been seen fleeing with a red rose in her hand.
Earlier CCTV images showed a suspect fleeing holding a red rose moments before a blast ripped through a packed shopping street, wounding at least another 81 people on Sunday afternoon.
Turkish police have now named the suspect as Albashir, a Syrian national who they say told them she had been trained as a special intelligence officer by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Images also showed her on the floor of her flat with police officers pointing guns at her and camouflage trousers on the ground.