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At least six people were injured following a suspected shooting at a middle school in Turkey. The horror unfolded at Ayser Çelik Middle School in Kahramanmaraş in the south on Wednesday, in what is the second shocking school shooting in just two days.

It has been claimed that a lone attacker came to the school with five guns and seven magazines. Journalist Lokman Başçı has said the unidentified attacker entered a classroom at the school and opened fire, According to multiple publications in Turkey, two classrooms were actually targeted by the suspect, who is now reported to have been killed.

After the first reports emerged, emergency crews and ambulances rushed to the scene as chaos gripped the area. Independent Turkish news website T24 reports that upon arriving on scene, Kahramanmaraş Governor Mükerrem Ünlüer said there had been four fatalities and 20 people injured.

According to local news outlet Haber, one of the deceased was a teacher. An attacker is reoprted to have been apprehended, however their identity has not yet been released.

ISTANBUL: A student aged about 13 opened fire at random in a Turkish school Wednesday (Apr 15) killing four people and wounding 20, just one day after a shooter wounded 16 people and then killed himself in another school, officials said.

Kahramanmaras province governor Mukerrem Unluer said a teacher and three students were killed in the latest attack. The attacker was also dead.

“A student came to school with guns that we believe belonged to his father in his backpack. He entered two classrooms and opened fire randomly, causing injuries and deaths,” Unluer told reporters.

Four of the wounded were in serious condition and undergoing surgery, he said.

The attacker, an eighth-grade student, was the son of a former police officer, Unluer said, adding that the suspect was carrying five guns and seven magazines.

“We suspect he may have taken his father’s weapons,” the governor said.