Twenty-one Foreign Tourists Injured In Accidental Blast At Turkish Hotel

ANKARA, July 24 (AFP) - Twenty-one tourists from Germany, Russia and Austria were slightly injured in an accidental blast caused by an oxygen canister in a hotel in the popular Turkish Mediterranean resort of Kemer, local police said Saturday.
The tourists were at the bar near the hotel's pool at the time of the explosion of the canister late Friday, a police spokeswoman said.
Most of the tourists escaped with minor scratches and suffered from shock, but one Russian national was operated on to remove a piece of metal from his abdomen, she said.
"They are all fine now," she added.
Turkey's Mediterranean coast is a popular holidaying destination for Europeans.