ANKARA, Turkey — A former pupil opened fireplace at a highschool in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday, wounding at the least 16 individuals, earlier than killing himself, an official stated.
The 18-year-old attacker, armed with a shotgun, fired randomly inside a vocational highschool in Siverek, Sanliurfa province. He later killed himself with the identical shotgun after being “cornered by police,” Gov. Hasan Sildak stated.
The assault left 10 college students, 4 lecturers, a canteen worker and a police officer harm, Sildak stated. Whereas most of them had been being handled in Siverek, 5 of the lecturers and college students had been transferred to a hospital within the provincial capital as a result of their circumstances had been extra severe, the governor stated.
The motive for the assault stays unclear. Faculty shootings are uncommon in Turkey.
The attacker didn’t have a prison file, Sildak stated. The college had been declared secure and no everlasting police officer was assigned to guard it, he added, calling the taking pictures an “remoted incident.”
NTV tv and different media experiences stated the assailant had threatened an assault on the college on social media previous to the taking pictures.
One pupil advised the state-run Anadolu Company that he and a buddy jumped out of their classroom window to flee the attacker.
“He immediately entered the classroom and fired. He fired 4 or 5 instances. Two individuals had been hit. He then went into the following classroom,” Anadolu quoted Omer Furkan Sayar as saying. “We first threw ourselves to the bottom after which two of us jumped out of the window.”
Sayar continued: “He did not say something, he entered and began to shoot straight.”
Earlier, media experiences stated all college students had been evacuated and police particular operations items had been deployed after the assailant refused to give up.
“The person was cornered contained in the constructing by way of police intervention and died after taking pictures himself,” Sildak advised reporters, including {that a} “complete” investigation into the taking pictures can be carried out.
Video footage confirmed dozens of scholars operating out of the college towards the gate and onto the road.
