Ankara: An explosion in the Southeastern Turkish town of Suruc near the Syrian border killed 27 people and wounded around 100 who were being treated in local hospitals, the interior ministry said in a statement on Monday.

It said there were concerns that the death toll could rise.

Islamic State behind the attack

Preliminary evidence suggests an Islamic State suicide attack caused the blast that ripped through the Turkish border town, two senior Turkish officials told Reuters.

‘Our initial evidence shows that this was a suicide attack by the Islamic State,’ one of the officials, who declined to be identified, told Reuters.