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ISTANBUL // At least 15 foreigners, including several Arab nationals, were among those shot dead in the nightclub shooting, officials said.

Of the 39 people killed in the assault at the Reina club, only 20 victims had been identified – 15 of them foreigners and five Turks, said interior minister Suleyman Soylu.

The Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul said that Saudis were among the victims, but gave no figures.

The Asharq Al Awsat newspaper, however, quoted a consulate source as saying that five Saudis including two women had died and 11 others were injured.

Al Arabiya television also spoke of five dead, but put the number of injured Saudis at nine.

The foreign ministry in Amman said three Jordanians were killed and four injured, the official Petra news agency reported.

The Lebanese foreign ministry announced the death of three Lebanese and said another four were wounded.

“I was saved by my passport which I was carrying right near my heart,” one of the injured, Francois Al Asmar, told Lebanese television from hospital.

The Tunisian foreign ministry said on its Facebook page that two Tunisians were killed, with reports saying the victims were a businessman and his wife.

India’s external affairs minister said two nationals were among the dead, naming them as Abis Rizvi, the son of a former MP, and a woman, Khushi Shah, from Gujarat state.

Turkey is a leading tourist destination for Israelis, with tens of thousands visiting each year.

Belgium’s foreign ministry confirmed a Belgian-Turkish dual national was killed.

Paris said a French- Tunisian dual national woman had died along with her Tunisian husband. It was not known if they were among the dead listed by Tunis. Another three French people were injured, the foreign ministry said.

Three Moroccans were wounded, the state news agency Map reported, citing the Moroccan embassy in Ankara.

The Israeli foreign ministry said an Israeli woman, identified in reports as 19-year-old Leann Nasser, had died, and one of her friends was injured.

Umit Bektas / Reuters; AP Photo; Emrah Gurel / AP Photo; Tolga Bozoglu / EPA Left, a Turkish coast guard boat patrols in front of the Reina nightclub by the Bosphorus. Above, medics carry a wounded person at the scene after the attack. Below, a young woman cries as she leaves flowers for the victims outside the nightclub....