ANKARA, June 28: An explosion Monday damaged a defense ministry building in central Ankara on Monday, but police said the blast was not the result of a bomb. There were no casualties, said Ankara police chief Ercument Yilmaz.

The blast came amid heightened tensions in Turkey as NATO leaders, including US President George Bush, met at a summit in Istanbul. Yilmaz said the explosion was not the result of a bomb but was caused by an electrical fault in a surveillance camera, Anatolia said.

Turkish media said the blast shattered windows in the military complex and surrounding buildings and damaged cars parked in the street. The complex is used as an operations centre for the supply of oil to the Turkish army as well as to Nato, the semi-official Anatolia news agency said. -AFP