Turkey backtracks on 'child suicide bomber' statement: Kurdish wedding bomber 'may not have been child'

Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says authorities are in no position to verify whether a child suicide bomber was responsible for a blast that killed at least 54 people on Saturday, reversing an earlier assertion by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

"We are not in a position to verify anything about who the perpetrator was - if it was a child, an adult, or for which organisation," Yildrim told reporters in Ankara on Monday, referring to the suicide attack at a wedding in the city of Gaziantep.

"We do not have a clue about who the perpetrators behind the attack were," he added. "Early information on who did the attack, in what organisation's name, is unfortunately not right," he said.

Erdogan had said on Sunday that a child suicide bomber aged "between 12 and 14" was responsible for the attack, and that the bombing in Gaziantep had been "perpetrated by Daesh"...
 Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
 22/8/16