Nine killed in second Turkish school shooting in two days

Eight students and one teacher died in the attack, according to Interior Minister Mustafa Cifci. Eight students and one teacher died in the attack, according to Interior Minister Mustafa Cifci.

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Eight students and one teacher died in the attack, according to Interior Minister Mustafa Cifci.

At least eight students and one teacher have been killed and several others injured following a shooting at a school in southern Turkey, Interior Minister Mustafa Cifci has said.

The incident happened at Ayser Calik Secondary School in the Kahramanmaras area.

The attacker was also killed during the incident, local governor Mukerren Unluer said.

It comes a day after 16 people were injured after an ex-student opened fire at another high school, also in the south of the country, before killing himself.

Ciftci said 13 people were wounded, with six in critical condition.

The motive of Wednesday’s attack is not yet known and an investigation has been launched.

Turkish media reported that the attacker, believed to be a teenager, entered two classrooms and had five guns and seven magazines with him, which Unluer alleged belonged to his ex-police officer father.

“The sound of gunfire was very intense,” a reporter for Turkish broadcaster NTV said, adding that there was “panic in front of the school”.

Footage from the scene showed crowds of people, some filming on their mobile phones, and ambulances driving away.

— A student opened fire in two classrooms at a middle school in southern Turkey on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 13 others, authorities said, in the country’s second school shooting in two days.

The attacker, a 14-year-old student, was found dead after the attack, though it was not immediately clear whether he was killed by police or died by suicide. Kahramanmaras provincial Gov. Mukerrem Unluer said the boy arrived at the school armed with weapons believed to belong to his father, a retired police officer. He was carrying five firearms and seven magazines.

Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci said six of the wounded were in serious condition. The motive for the attack was not immediately known.

The shooting took place in the Onikisubat district of Kahramanmaras, where parents rushed to the school after reports of gunfire, according to NTV television.

The attack came a day after a former student opened fire at a high school in neighboring Sanliurfa province, wounding 16 people, most of them students. That assailant later killed himself, authorities said.

School shootings have been rare in Turkey until this week.

State-run broadcaster TRT identified the middle school shooter as Isa Aras Mersinli and reported that his father was detained for questioning.

Turkish authorities imposed a ban on the broadcast of what they described as “traumatic” images from the scene, instructing media outlets to limit coverage to official statements.

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— Turkish security forces and emergency staff in the courtyard of a secondary school where a student opened fire. (IHA via AP)

At least nine people, including eight children, have been killed in a school shooting in Türkiye.

It’s the country’s second school shooting in two days.

Local authorities believe the shooter arrived at school carrying guns that may have belonged to his father, who was a former police officer.

At least nine people, including eight children, have been killed in a school shooting in Türkiye - the country’s second school attack in two days.

A boy, believed to be aged 13 or 14, carried out the shooting in southeastern Türkiye on Wednesday, killing his fellow students and a teacher.

At least 13 other students have been injured in the attack.

The governor of Kahramanmaras, Mukerrem Unluer, said the shooter arrived at his school carrying five guns and seven magazines.

“He entered two classrooms and opened fire randomly, causing injuries and deaths.”

The governor said that was before he shot and killed himself.

Eighth-grade students in Türkiye are usually aged 13 or 14.

The student shooter was the son of a former police officer, according to Mr Unluer.

Local Turkish media has reported that the student’s father has been detained.

“We suspect he may have taken his father’s weapons,” the governor said.

Police and paramedics have surrounded the school, while the country’s justice minister said prosecutors had launched an immediate investigation.

Videos of the scene show students jumping out of windows and fleeing the school grounds through a courtyard.

About 15 gunshots can be heard in the one-and-a-half-minute video.

Turkish security forces and emergency staff outside the high school where a shooting took place on Tuesday. (Mevlut Bayraktar/IHA via AP)

School shootings were rare in Türkiye, but this is the second school shooting in two days.

On Tuesday, a former student opened fire at a school in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa, injuring at least 16 people, including students and teachers, before killing himself.

— A student opened fire on two classrooms at a secondary school in south-east Turkey on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 13 others, the interior minister said, in the country’s second such shooting in two days.

Kahramanmaras provincial governor Mukerrem Unluer said the student was armed with guns belonging to his retired police officer father. He was carrying five firearms and seven magazines.

The 14-year-old gunman died but it was not clear whether he was killed by police or killed himself.

Six of the 13 people wounded were in serious condition, interior minister Mustafa Ciftci said.

The motive of the attack was not immediately known.

State-run broadcaster, TRT, identified the attacker as Isa Aras Mersinli, and said his father had been detained for questioning.

Turkish authorities imposed a ban on the broadcast of “traumatic” images from the shooting, warning media organisations to limit coverage to statements from officials.

Earlier, media reports said authorities sent police and ambulances to the school in the Onikisubat district, after gunfire was heard there.

Video footage from the scene showed at least two people being put into ambulances outside the middle school.

It is the second shooting in a Turkish school in two days.

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