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The 18-year-old attacker, armed with a shotgun, fired randomly
at a vocational high school in Siverek, Sanliurfa province,
before hiding inside the building. He later killed himself with
the same shotgun, Gov. Hasan Sildak said.
The attack left 10 students, four teachers, a canteen employee
and a police officer wounded, Sildak said. While most of them
were being treated in Siverek, five of the wounded teachers and
students were were transferred to a hospital in the provincial
capital because their conditions were more serious, the governor
said.
The motive for the attack remains unclear. School shootings are
rare in Turkey.
Earlier, media reports said all students were evacuated and
police special operations units were deployed after the
assailant refused to surrender.
“The individual was cornered inside the building through police
intervention and died after shooting himself," Sildak told
reporters, adding that a “comprehensive” investigation into the
shooting would be carried out.
Video footage showed dozens of students running out of the
school toward the gate and onto the street
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