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A student opened fire on two classrooms at a middle school in Turkey on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 13 others, the interior minister said, in the country’s second such shooting in two days.
The 14-year-old gunman was killed.
He arrived at the school armed with guns believed to belong to his father, a retired police officer, Kahramanmaras provincial Gov. Mukerrem Unluer said. The teen was carrying five firearms and seven magazines.
The motive for the attack wasn’t immediately known, and it was not clear whether the gunman was killed by police or killed himself.
Six of the 13 people wounded were in serious condition, Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci said.
At least three students and a teacher were among the dead when officials gave an earlier update, when it was known that at least five people had been killed.
The attack came just a day after 16 people, mostly students, were wounded when a former student opened fire at a high school in nearby Sanliurfa province. The assailant later killed himself.
Historically, school shootings have been rare in Turkey though in the past decade incidents involving guns at academic institutions have crept up.
Earlier, media reports said that authorities sent police and ambulances to the school in the Kahramanmaras’s Onikisubat district, after gunfire was heard there. Images from the scene showed at least two people being put into ambulances.
Parents rushed to the school after hearing reports of an armed attack, NTV television reported, adding that police took security measures around the school.
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