10.08.2004, 14:21
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Bombs have exploded at two small hotels and a gas plant in the Turkish city of Istanbul, killing two people and injuring at least nine.
Two men, an Iranian and a Turk, died at the Pars Hotel in the Laleli district and the injured include Chinese, Dutch, Ukrainian and Turkmen citizens.
The Pars received a warning by phone but had only 10 minutes to react.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks in a city where Kurdish, Islamist and leftist militants are all active.
The latest blasts appeared "to be a terrorist attack," Istanbul police chief Celalettin Cerrah said, without giving further details.
Four simultaneous suicide bombings by Islamist militants in Istanbul last November killed more than 60 people.
The Turkish government has also been on the alert for attacks by Kurdish separatist militants, who called off a cease-fire in June.