At least four people have died this Wednesday and 20 have been injured, four in critical condition, in a shooting at a school in the Turkish province of Kahramanmaras, according to local authorities, who specified that the attacker, a student at the school about 16 years old, died during the attack.
The governor of that province, Mükerrem Ünlüer, indicated that A teacher and three fifth-grade students, aged 10 and 11, died in the attack at the Ayser Çalik schoollocated in a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of Kahramanmaras.
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Ünlüer specified that The aggressor used five weapons belonging to his father, a former police officer, and carried seven magazines in a backpack.
The attacker died during the shootingbut still It is not known if he committed suicide or accidentally shot himself.said the governor.
The student was in the eighth classwhich normally corresponds to an age of 14 years, but the broadcaster Halk TV claims that he was around 16 years old.
According to witnesses cited by the newspaper Cumhuriyet, The student entered two different classrooms and fired continuously, changing magazines without stopping firing.
These sources also pointed out that according to school officials, The student had previously shown “psychological problems”although they did not specify more.
The Ministers of Interior, Mustafa Çiftçi, Education, Yusuf Tekin, and Health, Kemal Memisoglu, are traveling to Kahramanmaras and the Ministry of Justice has commissioned several chief prosecutors to investigate the event.
As a first measure, the student’s father, a former police officer, has been arrested, reports the NTV network.
Just yesterday, a former student at a school in Siverek, a municipality in the neighboring province of Sanliurfa, 200 kilometers from Kahramanmaras, injured 16 people at a school before committing suicide.
