Ankara: A gunman has opened fire near a high school in western Turkey on Tuesday, wounding at least eight people. The suspected shooter was arrested. 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 in a statement. Police and medical teams were immediately sent to the scene.

The injured were rushed to hospitals for treatment, the governor’s office said, without providing information on their conditions.

The motive for the attack was under investigation, it added. “After the incident, the suspect believed to have fired the weapon was caught by security forces and taken into custody,” the statement read.

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Turkey school shootings

Turkey has been shocked by two school shootings this year. 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 nine students and teachers and wounding 13 others. The attacker was killed by police.

Two deadly school shootings in April caused outrage in ⁠Turkey and prompted officials to bring in new security measures for the 2026-2027 academic year, including tighter gun controls.
Before then, ⁠the country had not had a history of such attacks.

Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said Interior ⁠Minister Mustafa Ciftci and Education Minister Yusuf Tekin were going to Manisa to carry out inspections.

(With inputs from agencies)

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