BBC: Six people have died in a gun battle outside the US consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
The city's Governor, Muammer Guler, said three policemen and three attacking gunmen were killed.
No injuries were reported to staff inside the consulate. The US ambassador to Turkey condemned it as "an obvious act of terrorism" aimed at the US.
A fourth gunman and the driver of a vehicle that dropped off the attackers at the consulate reportedly escaped.
Reports quoted police sources as saying the suspects belonged to a Turkish Sunni Islamic fundamentalist group, says David O'Byrne in Istanbul.
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