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Nine Killed in Turkey School Shooting as Police Probe Planned Lone Attack

The case is reshaping school security and online policing in Turkey.

Overview

  • The Kahramanmaraş school attack Wednesday left nine dead and 13 injured after a 14-year-old opened fire in two classrooms with five pistols taken from his retired-police father.
  • Prosecutors say computer files created days earlier and a WhatsApp profile image referencing US attacker Elliot Rodger point to a planned lone act without a terrorist link.
  • Police detained the boy’s parents, opened a case against the father over the guns, and said they shut 940 social-media accounts and more than 90 Telegram groups that promoted violence.
  • Officials reported six patients in intensive care and ordered schools in the province closed on Thursday and Friday.
  • The rampage followed Tuesday’s separate school shooting in Şanlıurfa that wounded 16 people, a rare cluster in a country with strict gun laws but many illegal firearms.