School Shooting in Turkey Leaves Four Dead
A school shooting in Turkey’s Kahramanmaras province has left at least four people dead and 20 injured, marking the second attack at a school in the country within two days.
Local governor Mükerrem Ünlüer said the attacker was an eighth-grade student who arrived with five guns and seven magazines, reportedly belonging to his father, a former police officer. He entered two classrooms of fifth-grade pupils and opened fire, killing three students and a teacher before taking his own life.
Eighth-grade students in Turkey are typically 13 or 14 years old, while fifth-graders are usually 10 or 11.
At least 20 people were injured, four of them critically and undergoing surgery. Unverified footage shows pupils jumping from second-floor windows in panic as gunfire rang out across the school. CCTV images circulating in the media appear to show the attacker shooting two students in a corridor.
Television footage showed ambulances arriving and police securing the scene as residents gathered outside.
A day earlier, a similar attack in another province left at least 16 people injured before the assailant, a former student, killed himself.