A father with his young daughter among the victims of the attack in Istanbul

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A little girl and her father are among six people killed in the attack on Istanbul’s busy Istiklal street.

An explosion rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul on Sunday afternoon, with the Turkish president calling the incident a “bomb attack” and saying it “reeks of terrorism”.

At least 81 were injured and police say a woman may be behind the blast.

According to Sky news, Yusuf Meydan and his young daughter Ecrin were among those killed.

Turkey’s Minister of Family and Social Services, Derya Yanik, said: “I condemn this treacherous attack that killed a father and his daughter. As a state, we stand by the families of our brothers and sisters who lost their lives and our wounded with all our might. No evil will be able to disrupt our unity and solidarity.”

Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said those behind the terror attacks “will fail today as they did yesterday and as they will fail again tomorrow”.

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