The death toll in Tuesday's terror attack at the Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, has climbed to 41, the governor of Istanbul, Vasip Sahin, said
Wednesday morning. The number of injured has increased to 239, he said.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, who said a trio of armed attackers arrived at the airport in a taxi and blew themselves up after opening fire, is convinced ISIS is behind the attack.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said this morning, "This attack once again revealed the dark face of terroristorganizations targeting innocent civilians. It is obvious that this attack does not aim to attain any results but merely aims to produce propaganda material against our country by shedding the blood of and causing pain for innocent civilians."
No Americans are on the list of killed foreign nationals released by Turkish authorities.
Thirteen foreigners are among the dead, Turkish authorities said, including three people who are dual Turkish citizens. Five of the foreign victims are from Saudi Arabia and the others are from the Middle East and Asia, officials said.
Of the 239 injured, 109 have been discharged from the hospital while 130 people are still receiving treatment, officials said.
After the attack, anxious friends and family members of the victims congregated at Istanbul's Bakirkoy Hospital, where the victims were taken.
"You can hear that people are wailing here," Serdar Tatlisu, a relative of a victim, told The Associated Press. "We cannot cope anymore, we can't just stay still. We need some kind of solution for whatever problem there is."
While victims' loved ones descended upon the hospital, Turkish officials scrambled to restart operations at the country's largest airport.
The airport resumed "flights and departures from 2:20 a.m. [local time] on," which was 7:20 p.m. ET.
Ataturk is the 11th largest airport worldwide, with 61.8 million total passengers last year.
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