Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the suicide bomber was a 12-14-year-old child.President Erdogan confirmed in a statement to the public broadcaster NTV that 51 people had died in the bombing, while 69 injured people are being treated at hospitals around the province, death toll from a suspected suicide bombing at a wedding in the south east of Turkey has risen to 51 people.Suicide attack targeted a Kurdish wedding party in the city of Gaziantep, which is located not far from the Syrian border and this is the deadliest attack to have struck Turkey in 2016.

President Erdogan has placed the blame for the attack on IS, which has carried out numerous atrocities across Turkey in recent months. He called the attack a “heinous” bombing. The attack also comes a month after a failed coup attempt against Erdogan. He has accused the US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and his supporters of being behind the attempted power grab.