Turkish police have arrested the main suspect in the current Year's Eve attack on an exclusive nightclub in Istanbul after a huge manhunt.
Abdulkadir Masharipov is believed to have mounted the assault on the Reina club which left 39 people dead.
The Uzbek national is said to have been caught in Istanbul's Esenyurt district,BBC News reports.
Citizens of Israel, France, and Tunisia,Lebanon, India, and Belgium,Jordan and Saudi Arabia were among the victims, and dozens of people were injured.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the attack, or saying it was revenge for Turkish military involvement in Syria.[br]The gunman arrived at the club by taxi early that Sunday,before rushing through the entrance with a long-barrelled gun he had taken from the boot of the car.
He fired randomly at people celebrating the current year.
It was the culmination of a huge police manhunt: a raid on the Istanbul suburb of Esenyurt that finally caught the alleged Reina attacker, named as Uzbek national Abdulkadir Masharipov.
Photographs exhibit him with a heavily bruised face, and wearing a grey T-shirt and being held by his throat.
There had been fears that the gunman had managed to escape Turkey,perhaps to territory held by so-called Islamic State, which said it was behind the attack.
The Turkish authorities will be hugely relieved at his capture. But the far greater challenge for them is to secure this country and step up intelligence to halt the wave of terrorism attacks that has engulfed Turkey.
Police reportedly found the suspect along with his four year-old-fashioned son at the home of a Kyrgyz friend in the city. Turkish media say that his friend was also detained, or along with three women.
According to the Hurriyet newspaper,he was due to undergo medical checks before being taken in for interrogation at a police headquarters.
Source: tert.am