( CNN ) -- Three people died Tuesday in an explosion in the Turkish capital Ankara , in what may have been a terror attack , Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin told CNN sister network CNN Turk . `` There was a powerful explosion in a car that was parked , '' the minister said , citing preliminary information . `` The possibility that it was a terrorist attack is high . '' He said it was also possible that a gas explosion had caused the blast , `` though that is a weak possibility . '' The explosion shook a crowded street in the center of Ankara , damaging vehicles and buildings on Kumrular Street near the Kizilay metro station , the official Anatolia news agency reported . An eyewitness described the scene as `` terrible '' and `` very chaotic . '' `` Cars were exploding . Pieces were spreading around . We were terrified , '' the unnamed witness told CNN Turk . Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said earlier there were no deaths , but 15 people were wounded , Anatolia reported . Ankara governor Alaaddin Yuksel said officials , including police and a prosecutor , were investigating the cause of the blast . He said many cars were parked on the street with garbage bags under them at the time of the explosion . Five people are in surgery , he added . An emergency services doctor at Numune Hospital in Ankara said 10 injured people were brought to the hospital . One was in intensive care , one was in the burn unit and the other eight have light injuries , said the doctor . None of the injuries are life-threatening , said the doctor , who did not give a name . Doctors in state hospitals are not allowed to speak to the media . The explosion took place in front of the Cankaya municipal building , local official Bulent Tanik said on Turkish television . He cited eyewitnesses as saying a burning gas tank had been thrown out a window onto the street . Police have sealed off the street , Anatolia reported . -- CNN 's Yesim Comert and Talia Kayali contributed to this report .
Baghdad : A bomb explodes in central Baghdad , the interior minister says . NEW : The possibility that it was a terrorist attack is high , he says . Wounded soldiers are taken to nearby hospitals .