Nine killed in second Turkiye school shooting in 24 hours
Apr 16, 2026
Istanbul [Turkey], April 16: Nine people were killed in a school shooting in south-eastern Turkiye on Wednesday, Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftci said. It was the second deadly school shooting in less than 24 hours, shocking a country where such incidents are relatively rare.
Opposition parties have called for increased security measures at schools. Eight students and one teacher were killed, while 13 others were wounded, six of them in intensive care, Çiftci told reporters in Kahramanmaras province.
"The student, with the guns he brought from home, carried out a major massacre at the school," he said.
The assailant, an eighth-grade student at the secondary school, opened fire indiscriminately in two classrooms and is also dead, though it was not immediately known how he died. It was not immediately clear whether the death toll includes the 14-year-old attacker.
The suspect is believed to have carried in his backpack weapons he took from his father, a former police officer. The incident comes a day after a separate shooting at a high school in the south-eastern city of Şanlıurfa, not far from Kahramanmaras, where 16 people, including 10 students, were wounded.
Source: Qatar Tribune
