Ankara, Turkey – Four people, including three students, were killed and 20 others wounded Wednesday in a shooting at a primary school in Kahramanmaraş province in southern Turkey, the governor announced. “We regret the four deaths. Among the victims are a teacher and three students. We also have 20 injured,” Governor Makram Ünlüer told reporters. “One of the students came to the school carrying weapons, which we believe belonged to his father, in his bag. He entered two classrooms and opened fire indiscriminately.”
Images published by the private Turkish news agency IHA showed a person with their face and body covered being transported in an ambulance, alongside parents of students weeping outside the school. Turkish Justice Minister Akin Gürlek announced on the “X” platform that the public prosecutor’s office in Kahramanmaraş had opened an investigation into the armed attack at one of the city’s schools. However, he did not provide a casualty count.
On Tuesday, a teenager armed with a hunting rifle injured 16 people at a technical high school in Şanlıurfa province (southeast). Among the injured were ten students and four teachers. Such incidents are relatively rare in Turkey, despite the presence of tens of millions of firearms in circulation, most of which are illegal, according to estimates by a local organization.
