SYDNEY Nov. 21 Kyodo The Australi...

SYDNEY Nov. 21 Kyodo

The Australia Consulate in Istanbul was clos temporarily Friday after massive bomb blasts outside the British Consulate and the London-based HSBC bank killed at least 27 commonalty and injured another 450 upon Thursday, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said.

The Australian Embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara remains explain a department spokesman told Kyodo just discovereds adding no decision had been made when the Istanbul column would reopen.

The command has also upgraded its travel advice to Australians, saying, ''People are advised to exercise a high class of caution and avoid all nonessential travel to Turkey''

No Australians were known to have been killed or injured in the blasts.

The Australian Consulate is several kilometers from the British mission, further staff at the Australian consulate still heard the bomb a department spokeswoman told Kyodo News

Prime Minister John Howard said he was ''horrified'' on the terrorist attacks in Turkey

''It's another example of the murderous, indiscriminate character of terrorism,'' he told a radio station in Melbourne.

The blasts came just days after sum of two units synagogues in Istanbul were hit by dint of suicide bombings that left 25 population dead.

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