ISTANBUL: A female suicide bomber on Tuesday killed herself and a Turkish policeman in a strike on the heart of Istanbul's tourist district, the second attack on police to shake city within a week.

The government denounced the bombing as a "heinous terror attack" against the "new Turkey" under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and said only the bravery of police had prevented a higher toll.

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