A gunman opens fire at a high school in Turkey, wounding at least 16

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A erstwhile student opened occurrence astatine a precocious schoolhouse successful southeast Turkey connected Tuesday, wounding astatine slightest 16 radical earlier sidesplitting himself, an authoritative said.

The 18-year-old attacker, equipped with a shotgun, fired randomly astatine a vocational precocious schoolhouse successful Siverek, Sanliurfa province, earlier hiding wrong the building. He aboriginal killed himself with the aforesaid shotgun, Gov. Hasan Sildak said.

A teacher who was among the wounded was successful superior condition, NTV television reported.

The motive remains unclear. School shootings are uncommon successful Turkey.

Police special operations units were deployed aft the assailant refused to surrender, while each staff and students were evacuated, NTV said.

Video footage showed dozens of students moving retired of the schoolhouse toward the gross and onto the street.