16 injured after a shooting at a school in southeastern Türkiye

16 people, most of them students, were injured Tuesday in Shooting at a technical secondary school in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa Turkey, according to what the governor announced.

Governor Hasan Seldak, who visited the scene, told reporters that twelve people are currently receiving treatment.

Seldak added that the attacker, a former student at the school who was born in 2007, shot himself and died.
The Turkish Broadcasting Corporation (TRT), citing the governor’s office, reported that among the injured were ten. High school students and four teachers, without revealing their condition.

According to the private Turkish Dogan News Agency (DHA) and a number of Turkish media outlets, the attacker was armed with a hunting rifle.

Photos broadcast by local media showed high school students fleeing from the school, and large police forces, at least one armored vehicle, and ambulances were deployed at the scene.

An eyewitness told the private Turkish news agency (IHA) that the attacker "He fired randomly, first in the courtyard, then inside the building"

This type of incident is relatively rare in Türkiye, as one local institution estimates that there are tens of millions of firearms in circulation, most of them illegal.