Taksim Square Bomb; or news about another event in Istanbul

What started as a peaceful day was disturbed by someone with explosives. I didn't hear the blast, my building didn't shake, but I felt the shock. The lasted reports are saying 22 people have been injured by a suicide bomber in Taksim Square. We live in such a place where this news is not entirely uncommon. Taksim Square is no stranger to bloodshed. On the first of May in 1977, extremists shot from a rooftop into a crowd of half a million demonstrators in Taksim Square killing 36 of the people gathered below. Sadly, there have been other deaths and many more wounded in Taksim Square, one day of which has come to be known as "Bloody Sunday" in Turkey. Today's bombing marks yet another outburst of violence in Taksim Square, this time seemingly directed at the police stationed in Taksim, who have been placed there because of events just like the one that took place today.
I have referred to what has happened today as news, I've also called it an event. I'm somewhat amazed at the import of words as mundane as "news" and "event". We keep these words as generic signifiers of things we don't have the fortitude to consider for more than a moment. I feel as though I betray all the pain and fear wrapped up in what has happened today when I call it an event, or say "Have you heard the news?" Yet, I have have grown accustomed to having all the horrors of the world being brought to me by words just like these. So, when something like this "hits close to home" I'm trying not bury it with a mass of signifiers as thought it is just news about another event. But I don't have a TV and the news here is primarily in Turkish, so I have a cushion of ignorance which helps with regulating the news of such events. I'm reminded of all the headlines and anchors informing me of the bombings that happened all across the globe, and how many I discounted them as soon as I turned the page or the commercials break came up. I hope I wont do that any more, but my deepest hope is that peace will be all we hear of one day.