A man lowers the body of Sarigul Tuylu, 35, a mother of two that was killed in Saturday’s bombing attacks in Ankara, Turkey, during her funeral in Istanbul, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015.

Two male suicide bombers carried out the devastating twin bombings this weekend in Ankara, the office of the Turkish prime minister said Sunday, as the toll rose to 97 dead.

“Work is continuing to identify the corpses of the two male terrorists who carried out the suicide bombings” on Saturday, the office of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in a statement.

It said that the attack, the deadliest in the history of modern Turkey, had claimed the lives of 97 people, raising slightly the previous toll of 95. At least 246 people were also wounded, dozens of whom were hospitalized in intensive care, according to Davutoglu’s office.

Of those killed 92 have been identified and work is continuing to identify the five others, it added.

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has claimed the toll is far higher at 128 but this has not been confirmed by the authorities.

Footage screened by broadcaster CNN Turk showed a line of young men and women holding hands and dancing, and then flinching as a large explosion flashed behind them, engulfing people carrying HDP and leftist party banners.

“Like other terror attacks, the one at the Ankara train station targets our unity, togetherness, brotherhood and future,” said Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has vowed to crush a Kurdish militant insurgency since the collapse of a ceasefire and resumption of intense violence in July.

Witnesses said the two explosions happened seconds apart shortly after 10 a.m. as crowds, including HDP activists, leftists, labour unions and other civic groups, gathered for a planned march to protest over the deaths of hundreds since conflict resumed between security forces and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the mainly Kurdish southeast.

“I heard one big explosion first and tried to cover myself as the windows broke. Right away there was the second one,” said Serdar, 37, who was working at a newspaper stand in the train station. “There was shouting and crying and I stayed under the newspapers for a while. I could smell burnt flesh.”

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