An attacker opened fire near a high school in western Turkiye on Tuesday and wounded at least 11 people, officials said. The suspected shooter was arrested.
Anxious parents rushed to the school and confrontations broke out between them and police who blocked entrance to the building, Cumhuriyet newspaper reported. Police and medical teams were immediately sent to the scene. The report added that he arrived at the scene armed with a shotgun he took from his grandmother’s house and fired randomly near the school before trying to flee the scene on foot. The attack came months after Turkiye was shocked by two school shootings this year. The government increased security at educational facilities at the start of the academic year last week. The assailant later killed himself.
In April, 16 people, mostly students, were wounded when a former student opened fire at a high school in Sanliurfa province in Turkiye’s southeast.
The attack took place in front of a vocational and technical high school in Turgutlu district, in Manisa province, the provincial governor’s office said. HaberTurk news channel said the assailant was a student at the school. The motive of the attack was not known, according to Gurlek, who said two chief prosecutors were appointed to investigate the shooting, including claims that the student was bullied at the school.
The next day, a 14-year-old student opened fire on two classrooms at his school in nearby Kahramanmaras province, killing eight students and a teacher and wounding 13 others. The attacker was killed by police.
