Turkey arrests New Year's Eve massacre attacker

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Istanbul/ 17 January 2017. The man suspected of fatally shooting 39 people in a New Year's Eve attack on an Istanbul nightclub was arrested Monday, media reports said.

The suspect, identified as Abdulkadir Masharipov, was apprehended in Istanbul in the company of his 4-year-old son, Hürriyet newspaper said.

According to the reports, police found Masharipov in the home of a friend from Kyrgyzstan. 

While other says that three women with Kyrgyz man were also detained.

Accounts in the Turkish media last week indicated that Masharipov is an Uzbek, though officials suggested he may be a Muslim Uyghur from China who made his way to Turkey via Kyrgyzstan.

Masharipov was taken to the Vatan police station even as police mounted additional raids targeting other members of the same terrorist network.

Banned militant outfit Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the massacre at the Reina club. (With IANS inputs)