A man and a woman mourn next to a body of one the victims of a blast targeting a wedding ceremony in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep, Turkey, August 20, 2016.

At least 22 people were killed and dozens more wounded late Saturday in an attack on a wedding party in the Turkish city of Gaziantep near the Syrian border, the local governor’s office said.

A total of 94 people were injured, the office of Gaziantep governor Ali Yerlikaya said in a statement.

“Today at 10:50 pm (1950 GMT) 22 of our citizens lost their lives and 94 people were injured in the bomb attack on a wedding,” Yerlikaya’s office said.

“We condemn the traitors who organized and carried out this attack,” it added.

Yerlikaya had earlier described the explosion as an “abhorrent terror attack”.

It was not immediately clear who was responsible but a Gaziantep MP for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Samil Tayyar, said: “Initial information suggests it is Daesh (ISIS) who did this,” Dogan news agency reported, using the Arabic acronym for the ISIS.

Last month, the country was shaken by an attempted coup by rogue elements of the military. Thousands have since been arrested or sacked in the military, police, civil service, judiciary and academia in a crackdown on what President Tayyip Erdogan calls a vast terrorist conspiracy.

Over 200 people were killed and the failed putsch that Erdogan says was engineered by a former ally, exiled islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.

Bombings have torn at the fabric of Turkey which is seen by Western allies as an important ally and buffer against instability in Syria and Iraq.

Three suspected ISIS suicide bombers killed 44 people at Istanbul’s main airport in July, the deadliest in a string of attacks in Turkey this year. Almost 40 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Ankara in March that was claimed by a Kurdish group.

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