1 Palestinian killed and 2 injured in a shooting on a street in Istanbul

ISTANBUL — Police in Istanbul have launched a “large-scale investigation” after a Palestinian was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting while they were sitting in a car, officials and media said Monday.

The killer threw a gun fitted with a silencer at the scene, the Istanbul Governor’s Office said in a brief statement.

The Demiroren news agency reported that the man sitting in the driver’s seat was killed and his friend was seriously injured in the shooting on Sunday evening. Another man, whom the governor’s office described as the dead man’s bodyguard, was wounded in the leg.

The killing was carried out by one or more masked assailants, the agency said. The victims were standing on Dilaver Street in the Kagithane district of northern Istanbul when the attack took place. He described the seriously injured victim as a businessman.

Photos of the scene showed a semi-automatic handgun with a silencer attached to the barrel lying on the pavement next to a white sedan parked between two other vehicles.

The rear passenger door of the white car, closest to the sidewalk, appeared to have been pierced by multiple bullets.