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Videos and pictures on social media show the horrifying scene in Gaziantep, Turkey.

Reports in Turkey claim at least 51 people have died and as many as 69 others have been wounded.

The explosion took place outside a wedding hall, according to reports.

At least 22 of the victims of the attack were under the age of 14.

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan immediately blamed ISIS for the bomb attack, saying that they were the likely attackers.

He also announced that the suicide bomber was a teenager aged 12 to 14 years old.

The official death toll of 51 did not include the bomber.

Veli Can, 25, said: "The celebrations were coming to an end and there was a big explosion among people dancing.

"There was blood and body parts everywhere."

The chief prosecutor's office annouced that they found a destroyed suicide vest at the blast site.

The attack took place at around 11pm.

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Blood stains and burns marked the narrow lane where the attack took place.

Abandoned shoes scattered the floor where woman and children had been killed.

Gaziantep governor Ali Yerlikaya said the incident was a "terrorist attack".

In a statement the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said the wedding was for their members.

The HDP have had tense relations with the ruling post-coup government, because of their association with the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK).

Turkey's president Erdogan has said openly that he did not invite the PKK to participate because he groups them in with terrorist organisations.

He said: "I do not make distinctions between PKK and FETO".

FETO is an acronym for "Fethullah Terrorist Organisation" which is a reference to the US-based exiled cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who the government blames for starting the coup.

The HDP today released a statement saying that the attack was targeting their members.

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Observers say that since the coup on July 15 the group has been excluded from democratic rallies and negotiations.

President Erdogan has claimed that the attack was engineered to drive divisions between the different groups in Turkey.

He said: "Our country and our nation have again only one message to those who attack us – you will not succeed!"

There has been a blanket ban on Turkish media reporting on the incident.

Turkish Red Crescent has sent out an appeal for blood donations.

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Meanwhile mourners surround the area of the bomb blast as police carry out their investigations.

Women could be seen wailing in the street outside the morgue in Gaziantep.

Witness Ibrahim Ozdemir said: "It was carried out like an atrocity.

"We want to end these massacres. We are in pain, especially the women and children."

Violence in the region has flared up in the largely Kurdish region, with the government blaming the PKK, Kurdish separatist militants.

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A parliamentary deputy from the ruling AK Party said on Twitter ISIS militants were behind the attack.

One witness claimed "close to a hundred" people may have been killed or injured.

Three ISIS suicide bombers killed 44 people at Istanbul's airport in July.

It comes days after a devastating car bomb killed more than six people in the eastern provice of Van.

A shocking video showed the moment the blast went off outside a wedding party.