According to Sky News, an explosion shook a popular pedestrian thoroughfare in the heart of Istanbul on Sunday afternoon. 

Turkey's president described the event as a "bomb attack" and said it "smells like terrorism".

Police believe a woman may have been responsible for the explosion, which left at least 81 people hurt.

Yusuf Meydan and his baby daughter Ecrin were among those killed.

The Turkish minister of family and social services, Derya Yanik, said: "I curse this treacherous attack that killed a father and his daughter.

"As the state, we stand by the families of our brothers and sisters who lost their lives and with our wounded people with all our means. No evil focus will be able to disrupt our unity and solidarity."

Earlier, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said those behind terror attacks "will fail today just as they did yesterday and as they will fail again tomorrow".

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