Boy, 14, kills nine people in Turkey’s second school shooting in two days
A 14-year-old schoolboy shot eight classmates dead and killed a teacher in a ‘personal attack’ at his middle school in Turkey.
It is Turkey’s second school shooting in two days.
The student who carried out the shooting is believed to have used guns that belonged to his father, a former police officer.
The student concealed the weapons in a backpack, entered two classrooms and opened fire ‘randomly’.
Horrifying footage seen by Metro shows the boy firing a pistol at a girl already lying on the ground.
Eight students and one teacher died in the shooting in the province of Kahramanmaras, Turkey’s Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci told reporters, adding that six of the wounded were in critical condition.
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‘This was solely a personal attack carried out by one of our students, it is not a terror incident,’ Ciftci said.
Earlier, Kahramanmaras Governor Mukerrem Unluer had said the shooter had shot and killed himself in the commotion.
‘An eighth-grade student came with 5 weapons and 7 magazines – which we believe belong to his former police officer father – in his bag, entered two classrooms with fifth grade students, causing deaths and injuries indiscriminately,’ Unluer said.
Fifth-grade students are usually aged 10 and 11 in Turkey.
It came the day after another 18-year-old gunman, who was recently expelled, wounded at least 16 people before killing himself.
Armed with a shotgun, he opened fire on anyone he could see at a vocational high school in Siverek in the province of Sanliurfa.
CCTV captured the moment his victims were shot. Trapped victims flee along a narrow corridor right past the shooter as he reloaded.