[Update] - At Least 30 Killed In 'Barbaric' Blast At Wedding In Turkey

                                           
       
                                  

At least 30 people have been killed in a "barbaric" suicide bomb blast at a wedding in Turkey's Gaziantep, authorities say.

Another 94 people were injured in the explosion, which a regional official in southern Turkey has described as a "terror attack".

Photos from the scene in the Sahinbey district of Gaziantep show a packed street with several bodies covered in white sheets.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Islamic State militants were the "likely perpetrator(s)" of the bombing but some security officials have also blamed Kurdish militants for the attack.

But the area where the wedding was held is said to have a large number of Kurdish residents and the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said some of its members had been at the wedding as guests.

Kurds are also playing a major role in fighting Islamic State in Syria, causing speculation that Islamic State was indeed to blame for the bomb.

Mr Erdogan said the aim of the bombing was to divide Turkey's different groups, such as Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen and "spread incitement along ethnic and religious lines".

"Our country and our nation have again only one message to those who attack us - you will not succeed," he added.

Turkey has suffered a series of attacks claimed by IS or Kurdish militants linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, known by its acronym PKK, in recent months.

Last month the country was shaken by an attempted coup launched by rogue elements of the military.

Thousands have since been arrested or sacked in the military, police, civil service, judiciary and academia in a crackdown on what President Tayyip Erdogan calls a vast terrorist conspiracy.

Over 200 people were killed in the failed coup that Mr Erdogan says was organised by a former ally, exiled Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.

Three suspected IS suicide bombers also killed 44 people at Istanbul's main airport in July, the deadliest attack in Turkey this year.

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