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The attack took place in front of a vocational and technical
high school in Turgutlu district, in Manisa province, the
provincial governor's office said. Police and medical teams were
immediately sent to the scene.
HaberTurk news channel said the assailant was a student at the
school. The report added that he arrived at the scene armed with
a shotgun he took from his grandmother's house and fired
randomly near the school before trying to flee the scene on
foot.
The motive of the attack was not known, according to Gurlek, who
said two chief prosecutors were appointed to investigate the
shooting, including claims that the student was bullied at the
school.
The assailant's parents and grandfather, who owned the gun, were
taken into custody as part of the investigation, Gurlek said.
Anxious parents rushed to the school and confrontations broke
out between them and police who blocked entrance to the
building, Cumhuriyet newspaper reported.
The attack came months after Turkey was shocked by two school
shootings this year. The government increased security at
educational facilities at the start of the academic year last
week.
In April, 16 people, mostly students, were wounded when a former
student opened fire at a high school in Sanliurfa province in
Turkey's southeast. The assailant later killed himself.
The next day, a 14-year-old student opened fire on two
classrooms at his school in nearby Kahramanmaras province,
killing eight students and a teacher and wounding 13 others. The
attacker was killed by police.
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