A shooting occurred at a school in southern Turkey, killing at least nine people and injuring several others, following a similar shooting at another school just one day earlier.
On 16 Apr 2026 GMT+7, Turkey's Interior Minister Mustafa Şentop announced a shooting at Aiser Chalick High School in Kahramanmaraş in the country's south, resulting in at least nine deaths and 13 injuries, six of them critical, while the perpetrator died at the scene.
Local Turkish media reported that the attacker, believed to be a teenager, entered two classrooms armed with five guns and seven magazines of ammunition, possibly weapons owned by his father, a former police officer.
NTV Turkish television reported hearing sustained gunfire and chaos outside the school, with many people gathering at the scene, some recording videos on their phones, while ambulances rushed the injured to hospitals.
This incident occurred just one day after a shooting at another high school in southern Turkey, which injured 16 people before the attacker, a former student, died by suicide.
Authorities are currently investigating the motive behind the latest shooting, with no clear cause disclosed yet.