Turkiye grieves students killed in school shooting
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“eight students who were fatally shot at school in Turkiye’s Kahramanmaras on Wednesday”
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Multiple sources confirm a school shooting in Kahramanmaras on April 15, 2026. One source explicitly states 'Eight students and a teacher killed', which corroborates the claim that eight students were fatally shot.
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— On 15 April 2026, a school shooting occurred at the Ayser Çalık Secondary School in the Onikişubat district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. İsa Aras Mersinli, a 14-year-old student enrolled at the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Onikişubat_school_shootin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Onikişubat_school_shootin…
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— April 15, 2026.The student, who was 14 years old, entered the school with five guns and seven magazines and managed to reach two fifth-grade classrooms, officials said. One of the dead was a teacher; …
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/world/europe/turkey-schoo…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/world/europe/turkey-schoo…
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— Eight students and a teacher killed in the south-central province of Kahramanmaras, interior minister says.Three people were killed and two police officers injured in the gunfire incident near the Isr…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/15/four-killed-in-turk…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/15/four-killed-in-turk…
“which claimed the lives of 10 people”
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The Wikipedia entry for the '2026 Onikişubat school shooting' explicitly states that the attacker 'shot and killed 10 people'. This is further supported by another web result stating an 'Eighth grade student kills 10 people'.
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— On 15 April 2026, a school shooting occurred at the Ayser Çalık Secondary School in the Onikişubat district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. İsa Aras Mersinli, a 14-year-old student enrolled at the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Onikişubat_school_shootin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Onikişubat_school_shootin…
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— School shootings in Turkey had been rare until this week. Turkey has strict gun laws that require licensing, registration, mental and criminal background checks, and severe penalties for illegal posse…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/turkey-school-shooting-kahraman…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/turkey-school-shooting-kahraman…
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— Funeral ceremonies have been held for four of the victims killed in a deadly school shooting in Kahramanmaraş, as Türkiye grapples with a series of unprecedented attacks targeting educational institut…
https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/turkiye-mourns-school-sho…
https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/turkiye-mourns-school-sho…
“It was the second school shooting in two days.”
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Two independent web sources confirm this was the second school shooting in two days, specifically mentioning a previous attack on Tuesday at a high school in Sanliurfa province.
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— Lists of mass shootings in the United States. Lists of school-related attacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_school_shootings_in_t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_school_shootings_in_t…
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— 15 April 2026.A 14-year-old attacker was also killed during the incident, officials said. It comes a day after 16 people were injured after an ex-student opened fire at another high school, also in th…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn088n9e6e9o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn088n9e6e9o
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— The shooting is the country’s second school attack in two days, coming after Tuesday’s shooting at a high school in Sanliurfa province in the southeast. It was conducted by a former student who killed…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/15/four-killed-in-turk…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/15/four-killed-in-turk…
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