ŞANLIURFA (Medyascope) – A school shooting in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday morning (April 14) has left 16 injured. The shooter, reportedly a former student at the school, died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds at the scene.
The shooting took place at a high school in the Siverek district of Şanlıurfa province. Four teachers, 10 students, one cafeteria employee, and one police officer were among the 16 injured.
The governor of Şanlıurfa province announced that all victims were in stable condition. The perpetrator, born in 2007, had been a former attendee at the school.
The attack was carried out with a hunting rifle at the Ahmet Koyuncu Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School in Siverek.
Attacks by teenage perpetrators in Turkey
In August 2024, an 18-year-old perpetrator armed with a knife wounded five in Turkey’s central Anatolian city of Eskişehir. The perpetrator had been active on online neo-Nazi forums and had published a manifesto shortly before the attack, according to investigators.
In October 2024, a 19-year-old in Istanbul perpetrated a double-femicide of two former classmates before taking his own life by jumping from Istanbul’s historic city walls in the Edirnekapı district.
Translated by Leo Kendrick for Medyascope | Edited by Medyascope English Newsroom
