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Sixteen suspects have now been arrested by Turkish police following the attack on an Istanbul nightclub, but the gunman who killed 39 people remains at large.

Islamic State militants say they were responsible for the new year gun attack that killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub – calling it revenge for Turkish attacks on IS targets inside Syria.  Turkish police say they’ve made eight arrests in connection with the shootings, but that the gunman himself is still at large.

Their coffins draped in the Turkish flag, Istanbul’s police force today began to bury its dead. 30 of their number died in last night’s double bombing near a sports arena. A Kurdish militant group has claimed responsibility which has provoked a furious response from the Turkish government – the Interior minister vowing vengeance.