• Four people, including three students and a teacher, were killed in a school shooting in Kahramanmaras, Turkey.
• The shooter, an eighth-grade student, also died at the scene.
• This incident marks Turkey's second school shooting in two days, with a previous attack leaving 16 injured.

On April 15, a shooting at Ayser Calık Secondary School in Kahramanmaras resulted in the deaths of four individuals, including three students and a teacher, while 20 others were wounded, according to local governor Mukerrem Unluer. The attacker, a student believed to be armed with weapons belonging to his father, was also dead at the scene, possibly from self-inflicted wounds amid the chaos of the attack, the governor stated Reuters.

This tragic event marked Turkey's second school shooting within 48 hours, following a prior incident in the Sanliurfa province where a former student injured 16 people before taking his own life. Witnesses reported that the eighth-grade shooter entered two classrooms and opened fire, with some students attempting to escape by jumping from windows Al Jazeera, India Times, and SCMP.

The Turkish government has defined this week's incidents as unusually severe given that school shootings are quite rare in the country. Following the recent attacks, Justice Minister Akin Gurlek confirmed that a judicial inquiry has been launched into these violent occurrences BBC and Los Angeles Times.

In light of this alarming trend, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has indicated that accountability measures will be enforced against those who may have been negligent in ensuring school safety. The incidents have led to increased security measures around educational institutions across the country Middle East Eye and Le Monde.