Overview
- A middle school attack in Kahramanmaraş on Wednesday left nine dead, including eight students and one teacher, with the teenage shooter also dead and at least six of the 13 wounded in critical condition, according to officials.
- Police detained the boy's father, a former officer, after officials said the shooter brought five pistols and seven magazines likely taken from home.
- In Siverek on Tuesday, an 18-year-old former student carrying a hunting rifle wounded 16 people at a vocational high school and then died by suicide during a police intervention.
- The justice minister announced a formal probe, ministers for interior, education and health traveled to the scenes, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged media to avoid politicization and rely on official statements.
- Investigators are reviewing a social-media comment that warned of an attack at the Siverek school three days before the shooting, and analysts note such school attacks are rare in Turkey, with the last major case widely cited from 2018.