Four Killed in Turkey's Second School Shooting in Two Days

Four people were killed in a school shooting in Turkey on Wednesday, marking the second such incident in two days.

A pupil opened fire at the school in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey. A teacher and three pupils were killed, while 20 others were injured, according to regional governor Mukerrem Unluer.

The shooter also died. The governor stated that the eighth-grade pupil – aged 13 or 14 – had used weapons belonging to his father, a former police officer.

“The shooter came with five weapons and seven magazines … in his bag, entered two classrooms where fifth-grade students were, causing deaths and injuries indiscriminately,” Mr. Unluer said.

Television footage showed ambulances arriving at the school, where police and crowds had gathered near the gate. Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said the shooting was under investigation.

School shootings are very rare in Turkey, but Wednesday's attack follows another earlier this week, where 16 people were injured during a shooting in Siverek in Sanliurfa province on Tuesday.

Officials stated that the assailant in Tuesday's shooting was a former pupil of the school, born in 2007, who carried out the attack with a shotgun before killing himself as police attempted to detain him.

Ten pupils, four teachers, a police officer, and a cafeteria worker were injured in the Siverek shooting. Regional governor Hasan Sildak said the shooter fired indiscriminately, first in the schoolyard and then within the building.

Security camera footage showed the attacker shooting people in the corridor as pupils attempted to flee. Mr. Sildak added that the attacker had no previous criminal record and that the school had previously been classified as safe by authorities.

Earlier this year in March, an 11th-grade pupil killed a teacher and wounded two individuals in a knife attack in Istanbul.

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