Istanbul (AFP) - An 11-year-old girl died from wounds she sustained in a shooting that occurred more than two weeks ago at a school in southern Turkey, bringing the death toll from this attack to ten, according to what media reported Monday.
Published on: 04/05/2026 - 11:09
The private NTV channel reported that the girl, Almina Agaoglu, died in the hospital.
A fourteen-year-old boy opened fire in a school in Kahramanmaraş province on April 15, killing nine students between the ages of ten and eleven, in addition to one teacher.
The boy was also killed, and it is not known whether he committed suicide or accidentally injured himself.
The authorities said that the boy brought five weapons to school, and he is the son of a former police inspector who was later arrested.
In a separate incident that occurred on April 14 in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa, a former student opened fire in his high school, wounding 16 people, before killing himself as police intervened.
These two incidents sparked widespread anger in the country. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dismissed the Deputy Minister of Education, and said that the government would take new measures, including imposing restrictions on the possession of weapons.
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