Turkey school shooting wounds 16, attacker dead
A former student opened fire at his former high school on Tuesday in Turkey, where school shootings are rare, wounding 16 people including students before killing himself, officials said.
Special security forces were deployed to the school in southeastern Turkey’s Sanliurfa province, where students were evacuated, local governor Hasan Sildak said.
Television footage showed ambulances standing by outside the school in the Siverek district as students fled the building in panic.
Sildak identified...
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