Explosion outside US Embassy in Ankara

Update: Initial reports say that a security guard has been killed after a suicide bomber entered the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey, and then blew himself up.

Several people have been hurt after an explosion in front of the US embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara, reports say.

Several ambulances and firefighter trucks have been dispatched at the scene.

Photographs posted online show some of the damage caused.

According to initial reports, the police suspect that the assault was a suicide bomb attack. (NewsPoint)