(VOVworld)- Suicide attack on pedestrian boulevard kills at least 5 and injures dozens. Netanyahu says not clear if Israelis were targeted.

A photo of Israeli tourists in Istanbul moments before the group was struck by a suspected Islamic State suicide bomber, March 19, 2016. (Channel 10 screen capture)

Turkish officials said three Israelis were among the five people killed in a suicide bombing that rocked a main pedestrian thoroughfare in the heart of Istanbul on Saturday. At least 11 Israelis were among the 36 injured in the explosion. Turkish authorities identified another of the people killed as an Iranian national. Israeli officials named one fatality as Dimona-native Simha Damri, 60, who was in Istanbul as part of a culinary tour with her husband Avi, who was also injured in the attack. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that two Israelis had been killed and said it was possible there was a third Israeli fatality.