At least 11 wounded in shooting outside Turkey school, suspect detained

A teenager opened fire outside a high school in western Turkey on Tuesday, wounding 11 people before being detained by police, authorities said.

The incident happened around 8 am local time (7 am CEST) in Turgutlu, Manisa province, near the city of Izmir, the regional governor’s office said.

“Eleven students were injured, two of them seriously,” Justice Minister Akin Gürlek wrote on X.

“The minor who carried out the attack was quickly apprehended and taken into custody,” he added.

Gürlek said the suspect’s parents and grandfather had also been detained by investigators probing the attack, which saw police and rescuers rushing to the scene alongside panicked parents.

DHA news agency broadcast CCTV footage of the alleged attacker, a young man wearing black jeans, a black jacket and a green top walking along a street holding what appeared to be a long-barrelled gun.

IHA published a similar image of what appeared to be the same person with a gun, although this time running, while NTV said the suspect was carrying a shotgun.

Footage from outside the school showed police wrestling a man in a white shirt to the ground before leading him away, with onlookers pressed against the school fence, filming with their mobile phones.

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