TURGUTLU: A teenager opened fire outside a high school in western Türkiye on Tuesday, wounding 11 people before being detained by police, a minister said. The incident happened around 8:00 am in Turgutlu in Manisa province, near the western resort city of Izmir, the regional governor's office said. Although such shootings are rare in Türkiye, there were two separate attacks by teenagers on consecutive days in April that shocked the nation, sparking deep concern about school security.
"Eleven students were injured, two of them seriously... The minor who carried out the attack was quickly apprehended and taken into custody," Justice Minister Akin Gurlek wrote on X. He said the suspect's parents and grandfather had also been detained by investigators probing the attack, which saw police and rescuers rushing to the scene alongside panicked parents.
Footage from outside the school showed police wrestling a man in a white shirt to the ground before leading him away, as a woman screamed, with onlookers pressed against the school fence, filming with their mobile phones. Authorities have opened an investigation into the incident, Gurlek said. — AFP
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