REYHANLI, Turkey: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey would “not refrain” from responding to twin car bombings it has blamed on Syria but it will also act with caution and not be drawn into its neighbor’s civil war.

Saturday’s bombings near the border with Syria left at least 48 people dead and raised fears Turkey could be pulled deeper into the conflict.

Erdogan said Monday: “We won’t fall for the trap, but we will give the necessary response at the necessary time. We would not refrain from this.” He did not elaborate.

Erdogan also said the Syrian regime was “with certainty” behind the attacks and dismissed Syrian denials as a lie.

Turkish authorities say they detained nine Turks with links to the Syrian intelligence agency in connection with the bombings.

The death toll in Saturday's bombing rose after rescuers recovered on Monday the bodies of two more people killed in the border town of Reyhanli.

The bodies were found in a sewer near the blast zones in the southeastern border town two days after twin car bombings which Ankara blamed on a radical Marxist group affiliated with the Damascus regime.

Cranes were still operating on Monday to remove the rubble as officials tried to estimate the damage spread over a several kilometer radius around the blast zones.