Overview
- Authorities in Kahramanmaraş reported nine people killed and 13 injured Wednesday, with six in intensive care and three in critical condition.
- Officials said the gunman was a 13-year-old eighth-grader, the son of a former police officer, who brought five pistols and seven magazines thought to be his father's and died during the attack.
- Witness accounts said he fired in the schoolyard, then entered two fifth-grade classrooms and kept shooting as children ran and some leaped from windows.
- Police detained the boy's father and prosecutors opened an immediate investigation, assigning three deputy chief prosecutors and four prosecutors to the case.
- The shooting came a day after a school attack in Şanlıurfa that wounded 16, and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged accountability as opposition leaders pressed for broader school security measures.