Four killed, 20 injured in school shooting in Turkey

A student opened fire indiscriminately in two classrooms at a school in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, killing four people and injuring 20 others, an official said.

Kahramanmaras provincial governor Mukerrem Unluer said the attacker, who was also killed, arrived at the school armed with weapons belonging to his father, a retired police officer. He was carrying five firearms and seven magazines at the time of the attack. The victims included a teacher and three students, the governor added. The motive behind the shooting was not immediately known.

Earlier, media reports said police and ambulances were dispatched to the school in the Onikisubat district of Kahramanmaras after gunfire was heard on the premises.

Video footage from the scene showed at least two people being taken away in ambulances. The incident came a day after another school shooting in nearby Sanliurfa province, where a former student opened fire at a high school, injuring 16 people, most of them students.