Ankara attacks: Turkey in mourning after blasts kill almost 100

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Brief scuffles broke out between the crowd and the police after some mourners tried to lay flowers at the site of the bombings.

The pro-Kurdish HDP party, which organised Saturday's rally, said 128 people were killed in the attacks.

Protesters have blamed the government for security failures around the rally.

The government has rejected suggestions that it was to blame for the bombing.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said there was evidence that two suicide bombers had carried out the attack.

Turkey declared three days of mourning after Saturday's attack, the deadliest ever in Turkey.

No group has said it carried out the attack, but Mr Davutoglu suggested that Kurdish rebels or the Islamic State (IS) group were to blame

The blasts took place near the city's central train station as people gathered for a march organised by leftist groups demanding an end to the violence between the Kurdish separatist PKK militants and the Turkish government.

Amateur video footage showed a group of young people holding hands and singing, as the first blast hits. The explosions left 245 people injured, with 48 of them in a serious condition



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