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 second such shooting in the country in two days. The student, who was also killed, arrived at the school armed with guns believed to belong to his father, a retired police officer, said Kahramanmaras provincial Gov. Mukerrem Unluer. The 14-year-old gunman was killed. The AP reports he was carrying five firearms and seven magazines.
The motive of the attack wasn't immediately known. 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. State-run broadcaster TRT identified the latest shooter as Isa Aras Mersinli and said his father was detained for questioning.
Until this week, such school shootings were rare in Turkey. Turkish authorities imposed a ban on the broadcast of "traumatic" images from the shooting, warning media organizations to limit coverage to statements from officials. 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. The New York Times reports the two shootings do not appear to be related. This story has been updated to reflect the increased death toll.
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