2015 Istanbul suicide bombing
On 6 January 2015, Diana Ramazova from Dagestan detonated a bomb vest at a police station in Istanbul's central Sultanahmet district, near the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia. The attack killed Ramazova and injured two police officers, one of whom later succumbed to his wounds. Ramazova was the pregnant widow of a Norwegian-Chechen ISIS fighter in Syria who had been killed in December 2014.
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| Location | Sultanahmet, Fatih, Istanbul |
| Date | 6 January 2015 |
| Target | Police station |
Attack type | Suicide bombing |
| Deaths | 2 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 1 |
| Perpetrators | Islamic State (ISIL) |
| Assailant | Diana Ramazova |
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