Four people were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide bombing on a central shopping district in the country’s largest city of Istanbul on Saturday.

Of the 20 wounded, three people are in serious condition.

Local governor said, the attack took place on Istiklal Caddesi, a pedestrian street usually thronged with shoppers and strollers on the weekend.

Police have sealed off part of the street, which adjoins Taksim Square in the European part of the city.

A Kurdish militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack and said it is in revenge for Turkish military operations against Kurds.

Meanwhile, a court in Ankara has remanded five people in custody on suspicion of links to last week’s attack in the capital which killed 37 people.