At least nine people were killed and 13 others injured in a school shooting in Turkey’s southern Kahramanmaraş province on April 16, 2026. According to Interior Minister Mustafa Cifci, the attack took place at a secondary school, leaving eight students and one teacher dead. Authorities reported that the 14-year-old shooter also died during the incident, and six of the injured remain in critical condition.

Kahramanmaraş Governor Mukerem Unluer stated that the attacker, an eighth-grade student, brought five weapons and seven magazines in his bag, believed to belong to his former police officer father. The student entered two classrooms and opened fire indiscriminately. The shooting occurred just one day after another incident in a nearby high school, where a former student injured 16 people before taking his own life.

The back-to-back school shootings have raised alarm in the region, though officials have not yet disclosed further details about the motives or security measures being taken.