Watch video: The moment armed 19-year-old enters school in Turkey’s Sanliurfa and opens fire indiscriminately

An alarm was raised this greeting successful Siverek, Sanliurfa province, Turkey, erstwhile a 19-year-old antheral stormed a vocational precocious schoolhouse and opened occurrence indiscriminately, injuring 16 radical and ending his ain beingness during the constabulary operation.

The incidental took spot successful the aboriginal greeting hours astatine Ahmet Koyuntsu Vocational and Technical High School, located connected Rustu Kuchukomer Street successful Siverek, Sunliurfa. According to authorities, the assailant, identified arsenic 19-year-old Omer Ket, entered the schoolhouse analyzable equipped with a shotgun and began firing indiscriminately, causing panic among students and teachers.

Watch the infinitesimal the 19-year-old entered the schoolhouse and began shooting indiscriminately, wounding astatine slightest 1 person

Following calls from citizens to the authorities, dense constabulary forces, ambulances and peculiar operations units were rushed to the scene. During the operation, the assailant remained wrong the school, and according to archetypal reports determination were panic scenes betwixt students and staff.

Sanliurfa Governor Hassan Sildak said a full of 16 radical were injured, including 4 teachers, 10 students, a constabulary serviceman and a idiosyncratic astatine the school’s canteen. He said determination were nary fatalities from the attack.

“Of the 16 injured, 4 – 2 teachers and 2 students – were deemed to beryllium successful mean information and were taken to hospitals successful the centre of the province. The remaining 12 wounded are continuing their attraction astatine Siberek State Hospital,” Hassan Sildak said.

According to him, the gunman was a erstwhile pupil of the school, had attended up to ninth people and past enrolled successful a region learning precocious school. The 19-year-old, calved successful 2007, allegedly changeable himself erstwhile constabulary forces attempted to subdue him, resulting successful him being recovered dormant wrong the school.

Authorities evacuated the schoolhouse complex, portion the prosecutor’s bureau began a judicial probe into the lawsuit and an administrative reappraisal into the circumstances of the incidental is ongoing.

“We widen our condolences to each the residents of Siberek, Sanliurfa and the full acquisition community. Despite the information measures being taken, isolated incidents whitethorn occur. We are intimately monitoring the information of the injured and privation them a speedy recovery,” said the politician of Sanliurfa.

An eyewitness described moments of aggravated fear, citing panic erstwhile the gunshots were heard extracurricular the school, with students and teachers trying to fly the area.

Investigations by authorities are continuing to found the motives of the attacker and the circumstances that led to the attack.