In Turkey’s second school shooting in two days, a 14-year-old student killed nine people, including eight of his own classmates, and injured 13 others at a middle school in southeastern Turkey on 15th April officials said. 

In the district of Kahramanmaras in the Turkish region, 8 students and 1 teacher were killed in the attack, according to the Interior Minister ​, Mustafa Ciftci, while 6 were wounded and are in critical condition.

Ciftci explained that this was a “personal attack by one of our students and not a terror attack.”

Earlier, Kahramanmaras Governor Mukerrem Unluer had said ​the shooter had shot and killed himself in the commotion.

Unluer said, “one 8th-grade student brought 5 weapons and 7 magazines, which we believe were his former police officer father’s weapons, into two classrooms with 5th-grade students, where he was indiscriminately killed and injured.”

The average age of the fifth-grade student is 10 or 11 years in Turkey.

There are very few incidents of students shooting at schools in Turkey. When reporters asked if authorities would take any steps after the shootings this week, Ciftci said: “We will take necessary precautions”, without giving any details. 

The shooter’s father had been arrested, said broadcaster NTV.

Gun laws are generally severe in Turkey, and only people over 21 years of age and with a gun license are permitted to carry and own a gun, but guns are widely used throughout Turkey, with many security officers allowed to carry and own.

In the school, gunshots rang out, and several pupils jumped from a window on the second floor of the school, as footage of them emerged on social media and was screened on television. Unverified ​CCTV footage ⁠from the school showed the attacker shooting two students walking down a hallway. 

The footage by Turkish media on Wednesday from the grounds of the school showed ambulances arriving at the school, where police and crowds had congregated at the entrance.

A former student killed at least 16 people, including students and teachers, and then he shot himself in the head at a school in the southeast province of Sanliurfa on Tuesday.