DHAKA: Two attackers opened fire on the US consulate building in Istanbul on August 10 and fled when police shot back.

Broadcaster CNN Turk said, reports Hurriyet Daily News.

Turkey’s Doğan News Agency reported those involved in the attack on the building in Istanbul’s Sarıyer district included one man and one woman. The woman was apprehended at a house she took refuge in.

CNN Turk said there were no casualties.

‘We’re still working to find out what’s going on,’ a spokesman for the US embassy in Ankara told the media.

Turkey has been in a heightened state of alert since it launched what officials described as a ‘synchronized war on terror’ last month, including air strikes against Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria fighters in Syria and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants based in northern Iraq, and the detention of hundreds of suspects at home.

US diplomatic missions have been targeted in Turkey in the past.

The far-leftist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), whose members are among those detained in recent weeks, claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at the US embassy in Ankara in 2013 which killed a Turkish security guard.

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