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In a second evening of violence in Istanbul, police killed a woman Wednesday carrying a bomb near the city’s main police headquarters, an official said, The Associated Press reported.

Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin also said that a second person escaped and that a policeman was slightly injured. It wasn’t immediately clear who was behind the attack.

The incident follows a deadly hostage situation Tuesday, when a prosecutor and two gunmen holding him at an Istanbul courthouse were killed in a shootout between police and the assailants.

Following services for the slain prosecutor, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu pledged to track down accomplices, saying the two gunmen were making phone calls abroad during the six-hour standoff.

Authorities believe the two assailants belonged to a banned left-wing group, DHKP-C.

Davutoglu didn’t name the country linked to the phone calls but said the government would release more information as its investigation went on.

“I gave the orders for all sorts of operations against whoever perpetrated the incident, wherever they may be,” Davutoglu said. “No one should think that the attack will go without a response.”

“We shall find out where the order came from. We will investigate who is behind this network,” he added.

The slain prosecutor, Mehmet Selim Kiraz, was investigating the death of a teenager hit by a police gas canister during nationwide anti-government protests in 2013.

The hostage-takers had made five demands, including that the police held responsible for the teenager’s killing confess to the death and be tried by “peoples’ courts.”

Police in the southern city of Antalya meanwhile, detained 19 people suspected of belonging to DHKP-C, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The agency said the suspects – many of them students – were being interrogated by anti-terrorism police. A further 10 suspects were detained in the cities of Izmir and Eskisehir, it said.