Identities of 35 victims, including 24 foreigners, confirmed in Istanbul attack

The identities of 35 victims killed in an armed attack at a nightclub in central Istanbul on Jan. 1 have been confirmed as 24 have been identified as foreign citizens, while eleven of them were reported to be Turkish citizens.

Istanbul's famous Reina nightclub was hit by an armed attack just over an hour into the new year. The gunman had reportedly entered the club by killing a policeman and a civilian at the entrance of the club and later shot his way into the club at the celebrating crowd. 

The foreign victims were identified as seven Saudi Arabian nationals, two Indians, one Canadian, one Syrian, one Israeli, two Tunisians, four Iraqis, one Lebanese and one Belgian.

Earlier, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said 20 of the victims were identified, while works to identify the other 19 were ongoing. Some 69 wounded were also undergoing treatments at 10 different hospitals, of which four of them were reportedly in "critical condition."

The Jordanian Foreign Ministry was quoted by the official Petra news agency as saying that three of its citizens were killed and another four injured.

The Tunisian Foreign Ministry said on its Facebook page that two Tunisians had died, with media reports describing the victims as a businessman and his wife.

An Israeli woman was also among the dead, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said on Jan. 1. She was identified as 19-year-old Leanne Nasser, and Israeli media reports said she had been at the club with three friends from her home village of Tira in central Israel, one of whom was wounded in the attack. Belgium's Foreign Ministry confirmed a Belgian-Turkish dual national was killed, and France said three of its citizens were wounded.