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Two female militants were killed by police when they fired shots and threw a grenade at a Turkish police bus in Istanbul on Thursday, local media and the Istanbul governor said. Two police officers were lightly wounded in the attack, Governor Vasip Sahin told reporters in televised comments. An investigation was under way to identify the militant group responsible, he said. One of the women threw a grenade and the other opened fire with what appeared to be a machine gun as the riot police bus drove towards the entrance of a police station in the Bayrampasa district of Turkey's biggest city, footage from Dogan News Agency showed. Police fired back, injuring one of the women, before tracking them to a nearby building