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According to report, Police
detained a man who fired shots into the air in front of the American embassy
early Tuesday, only hours after the Russian ambassador to Ankara was
assassinated.
Authorities said Şahin S.
approached the embassy in Ankara's Çankaya district and fired eight to nine
times into the air with pump-action shot gun he had concealed in his coat.
An investigation is
underway and extraordinary security measures have been taken around the area,
police sources said.
The US embassy in Ankara
and consulates in Istanbul and Adana were closed for normal operations on
Tuesday after the incident.
Russian envoy Andrey Karlov
was killed at an art exhibition in the Çankaya district only hours before the
incident, when a gunman targeted the diplomat.
The envoy, who was
delivering a speech at an opening ceremony, was taken to a hospital but was
later pronounced dead.
Police killed the assailant
in an operation that lasted approximately 15 minutes.
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