Gunman opens fire at high school in Turkey, wounding at least 16

A erstwhile pupil injured astatine slightest 16 radical Tuesday aft opening occurrence with a shotgun wrong a precocious schoolhouse successful Turkey earlier turning the limb connected himself, officials said. 

The 18-year-old who targeted the vocational precocious schoolhouse in Siverek, located successful southeastern Turkey, took his ain beingness with the shotgun aft helium was "cornered by police," Gov. Hasan Sildak said. 

Video taken astatine the country showed students sprinting retired of a gathering arsenic instrumentality enforcement and archetypal responders arrived. 

The onslaught near 10 students, 4 teachers, a schoolhouse canteen worker and a constabulary serviceman hurt, according to Sildak, who added that 5 of the teachers and students were transferred to a infirmary successful the provincial superior due to the fact that their conditions were much serious.

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An equipped idiosyncratic walks down a schoolhouse corridor successful Siverek, successful Turkey's Sanliurfa province, connected April 14, 2026, successful a inactive representation obtained from a societal media video. (Reuters)

The motive for the shooting was unclear. The attacker did not person a transgression record, Sildak said.  

The schoolhouse had been declared harmless and nary imperishable constabulary serviceman was assigned to support it, helium added, calling the shooting an "isolated incident." 

Sildak told NTV that the attacker started firing indiscriminately, opening successful the schoolhouse gait earlier entering the building, Reuters reported.

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Forensic constabulary officers respond aft a teen opened occurrence astatine a schoolhouse and wounded astatine slightest 16 people, including students and teachers, earlier sidesplitting himself successful Siverek, Turkey, connected Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (Sukru Dolas/Reuters)

One pupil told the state-run Anadolu Agency that helium and a person jumped retired of their schoolroom model to fly the gunman. 

"He abruptly entered the schoolroom and fired. He fired 4 oregon 5 times. Two radical were hit. He past went into the adjacent classroom," Anadolu quoted Omer Furkan Sayar arsenic saying. "We archetypal threw ourselves to the crushed and past 2 of america jumped retired of the window." 

"He didn't accidental anything, helium entered and started to sprout directly," Sayar added.

Turkish information forces and exigency unit basal successful the courtyard of a precocious schoolhouse wherever a gunman opened occurrence successful Siverek, southeastern Turkey, connected Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (Mevlut Bayraktar/IHA/AP)

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"The idiosyncratic was cornered wrong the gathering done constabulary involution and died aft shooting himself," Sildak told reporters, adding that a "comprehensive" probe into the shooting would beryllium carried out. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.