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Blasts at Turkey hotels kill two

REUTERS, Istanbul
Simultaneous explosions rocked two hotels in tourist areas of Istanbul early yesterday, killing two people and injuring up to 10, in what the city's police chief said was an apparent "terrorist" attack.
Turkish television pictures showed emergency services carrying casualties, mostly foreigners, to waiting ambulances at the scene of one of the blasts. Glass and debris lay scattered on the street.
Separately, two bombs exploded at a storage complex for liquid petroleum gas in an outlying area of the city, caus-
ing damage but no casualties, state-run Anatolian news agency quoted a company official as saying.
Police said two people were killed at the Pars Hotel in Laleli district, an area near major tourist sites and also popular with Iranian and east European traders.
CNN Turk said 10 people were injured in Laleli and at the other hotel blast in the historic Sultanahmet district.
"These appear to be a terrorist attack," Istanbul police chief Celalettin Cerrah told state-run Anatolian news agency.
Iranian trader Siamak Jihani, 54,
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said he was fast asleep at the Pars Hotel when the blast ripped through a room two floors below him at around 1.40 a.m. (6:40 p.m. EDT).
"There was a really loud explosion and the room shook," he said, his foot bandaged after he cut it on broken glass. "The corridor was filled with smoke. It was a scary experience."
Anatolian said one of the dead as 31-year-old Haydar Baydar from Van in eastern Turkey and the other as Mahdi Pooliki from Iran. It said seven were wounded -- two Dutch citizens, two Chinese, a Ukrainian, a Turk and a Turkmenistan national.
Officials at police headquarters declined to give details.
Istanbul, Turkey's largest city and commercial capital, has been targeted repeatedly by bomb attacks in recent years.
There was no claim of responsibility for the latest blasts, but Kurdish militants, far-leftists and radical Islamist groups have all carried out bomb attacks in the city.
Pars Hotel staff said someone had telephoned 10 minutes before the blast to say there was a bomb in one of the rooms. There were 37 guests in the hotel at the time, mostly Iranian.
The other explosion happened on the second floor of the Holiday Hotel in Sultanahmet, the historical heart of Istanbul where many of its Byzantine and Ottoman monuments are located.
Police sealed off the area around both hotels and forensic teams searched through the debris for evidence. Anatolian said police also searched several other hotels for suspects and further explosive devices.