📹WATCH: Sputnik correspondent shares video showing that some of the entrances to the metro close to the Istiklal street have been closed following the explosion

Turkish Interior Minister is on his way to Istanbul to coordinate the investigation of the deadly explosion on Istiklal street, local media reported.

⚡️The death toll from the explosion in Istiklal street rises to six; 53 injured, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says

⚡️Turkrish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the explosion in the center of Istanbul a "bomb attack"

⚡️Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that preliminary data after the explosion in the center of Istanbul indicates that it was a terrorist attack

🚁Helicopter patrols the area of the explosion in Istiklal street, Sputnik correspondent reports in the vicinity of the area rocked by the explosion

📹The video has emerged showing the aftermath of the explosion in Istiklal street

⚡️Turkish Interior Minister and the Turkish Justice Minister have arrived in Istanbul in connection with the explosion in Istikal street

❗️Turkish authorities consider the Istanbul explosion a terrorist attack - vice president

⚡️The number of injured in the explosion in Istanbul has risen to 81, with two in critical condition, the country's vice president has said.