Nine dead, 13 wounded in second Turkish mass shooting in two days

A 14-year-old lad is dormant aft allegedly sidesplitting astatine slightest 9 radical and wounding 13 much astatine a Turkish mediate schoolhouse Wednesday, according to media and authoritative reports.

The lad reportedly carried retired the convulsive attack, the 2nd of its benignant successful arsenic galore days successful Turkey, with guns belonging to his father, a erstwhile constabulary officer, according to determination politician Mukerrem Unluer.

"A pupil came to schoolhouse with guns that we judge belonged to his begetter successful his backpack. He entered 2 classrooms and opened occurrence randomly, causing injuries and deaths," Unluer told reporters astatine the scene, per aggregate media reports.

Eight of the deaths were students, portion the different was of a teacher, Turkey's Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci told reporters, per Reuters.

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Paramedics supply aesculapian assistance to an injured pupil aft a deadly schoolhouse shooting successful Kahramanmaras, Turkey, connected April 15, 2026. (Ihlas News Agency/Reuters)

Ciftci was besides adamant that this was a "sole incident" and not a panic attack.

The shooting took spot astatine Ayser Çalık Middle School successful Turkey's Kahramanmaras region, astir 140 miles westbound of the precocious schoolhouse wherever different pupil killed himself aft injuring 16 others successful a shooting 1 time earlier.

Shooting deaths are uncommon successful Turkey, with conscionable implicit 2.6 per 100,000 residents each year, compared to the U.S.'s 14.5. Applicants indispensable beryllium astatine slightest 21 years aged and spell done a rigorous aesculapian clearance and inheritance cheque process.

Firearm acquisition is, however, considerably much expedient for professionals with definite careers, specified arsenic instrumentality enforcement.

People hold successful beforehand of the schoolhouse gathering aft a deadly shooting, successful the southeastern state of Kahramanmaras, Turkey, April 15, 2026. (Reuters/IHA (Ihlas News Agency))

Despite the difficulties, Turkey has present been rocked by 2 wide shootings successful 2 days. In response, the authorities has urged citizens not to dispersed misinformation and to support the peace.

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An injured idiosyncratic is carried to an ambulance pursuing a schoolhouse shooting successful Kahramanmaras, Turkey, connected April 15, 2026. (IHA/Ihlas News Agency via Reuters)

"Managing the process with dependable judgment, protecting societal peace, and peculiarly ensuring the intelligence information of our children are of utmost importance," the country's Ministry of Communications besides posted connected X.

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"It is indispensable for our media organizations to enactment with the utmost consciousness of work successful their broadcasting policies," the station continued, adding that "such incidents make a highly fertile crushed for disinformation."

Four main inspectors and 4 inspector generals person been assigned to an probe into the incident, the Turkish Ministry of the Interior wrote connected X.