ISTANBUL, Oct 24 (AFP) - Six people were injured Sunday when a bomb exploded at the entrance to a McDonald's fast food restaurant in the northeastern Turkish city of Trabzon, the Anatolia news agency reported, but police suggested it was not a terrorist act.
"We do not think that this action is linked to a (terrorist) organisation," Ramazan Akyurek, chief of security in the city, the largest in the region, said according to the agency.
"What is more, so far no person and no organisation has said it was responsible."
He said the bomb had been "put together in an amateur way" adding that "there is a strong suspicion pointing towards an individual act."
"We have a description and we are working on it," he said earlier at the scene of the blast.
Witnesses questioned by the agency spoke of a young man running away from the restaurant, part of the international McDonald's chain.
"There was a huge noise as the windows... were smashed," said Zeki Akosy, who was nearby at the time.
"At that moment I saw a man aged about 30 running away... People were shouting 'catch him'."
"Eye-witnesses said they saw a man put down the bomb and run off," Huseyin Yavuzdemir, governor of Trabzon province, said, according to the agency. The injured, mostly teenagers, were taken to hospital.
One 66-year-old man said he was on his way home and was passing the restaurant when he heard an explosion and fell to the ground with an injured leg.
"A group of young people were walking in front of me and I saw some of them were hurt," he said.
10/24/2004 14:08 GMT - AFP