Istanbul airport terror attack kills 36, injures at least 147; no Israeli casualties reported

(JTA) — Israel’s Foreign Ministry is working to determine whether any Israeli citizens were injured in a suicide bombing Tuesday night in Turkey that killed 36 people and injured at least 140.

Two bombers blew themselves up at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, the third busiest in Europe, after opening fire at the entrance to the airport’s inte

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / This picture obtained from the Ilhas News Agency shows ambulances and police intervening next to injured people lying on the ground, after two explosions followed by gunfire hit the Turkey's biggest airport of Ataturk in Istanbul, on June 28, 2016. At least 10 people were killed on June 28, 2016 evening in a suicide attack at the international terminal of Istanbul's Ataturk airport, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said. Turkey has been hit by a string of deadly attacks in the past year, blamed on both Kurdish rebels and the Islamic State jihadist group. / AFP / ILHAS NEWS AGENCY / - / Turkey OUT (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

This picture obtained from the Ilhas News Agency shows some of the injured in a suicide bombing at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, one of the busiest in Europe, and emergency personnel, June 28, 2016. (AFP/Getty Images)

rnational terminal, according to media reports. Police had returned fire.

In March, a bombing in a tourist section of Istanbul killed three Israelis and injured several others. The same month, a suicide bombing at an airport in Brussels killed 32 people and injured more than 300.

The airport attack in Istanbul came on the same day that Israel and Turkey signed a reconciliation deal ending a six-year break in diplomatic relations.

According to the Times of Israel, the Israeli diplomats who were at the airport at the time of the Tuesday night attack were unharmed. Israeli diplomats said that no Israeli tourists were among the victims taken to the hospital.

Even during the diplomatic chill, Israel was one of the busiest routes for Turkish Airways, with 695,000 Israelis flying round trip with the airline in 2014 and eight daily flights on the Tel Aviv-Istanbul route.