Ankara: At least 50 people wee killed and over 90 others injured on Saturday night in an explosion at a wedding in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, media reports said.

At least 17 of the injured were in critical condition following Saturday’s attack, Health Minister Recep Akdag said.

The “terror attack” took place in Sahinbey district of Anatolia region which is about 95 km north of the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo. The wedding took place on a street, a common practice in Turkey, especially during the summer season.

A video footage showed hundreds of people in the darkened street as rescue workers lifted victims into ambulances.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, condemned the attack in a statement.  “Those, who cannot overcome Turkey and try to provoke people by abusing ethnic and sectarian sensitiveness, will not prevail,” Anadolu News Agency quoted Erdogan as saying.

Turkey has experienced significant turmoil in recent months, with the attempted military coup on July 15 and a series of deadly explosions, CNN said. Past attacks have been carried out by the Islamic State (IS), which controls northern Syria across the border, and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

In the most brazen attack, 44 people were killed in July by suspected IS suicide bombers at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport. Last March, two suicide bombers killed at least 40 people in Ankara, the capital. A Kurdish rebel group claimed responsibility for that attack. On August 10, two explosions killed at least eight people in the southeastern towns of Kizitepe and Diyarbakir, CNN added.