{"id":165247,"date":"2026-04-14T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165247\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:49:10","slug":"a-gunman-opens-fire-at-a-high-school-in-turkey-wounding-at-least-16-ap-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165247\/","title":{"rendered":"A gunman opens fire at a high school in Turkey, wounding at least 16 | Ap-world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Turkey (AP) \u2014 A former student opened fire at a high school in southeast Turkey on Tuesday, wounding at least 16 people before killing himself, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old attacker, armed with a shotgun, fired randomly at a vocational high school in Siverek, Sanliurfa province, before hiding inside the building. He later killed himself with the same shotgun, Gov. Hasan Sildak said.<\/p>\n<p>A teacher who was among the wounded was in serious condition, NTV television reported.<\/p>\n<p>The motive remains unclear. School shootings are rare in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Police special operations units were deployed after the assailant refused to surrender, while all staff and students were evacuated, NTV said.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage showed dozens of students running out of the school toward the gate and onto the street.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANKARA, Turkey (AP) \u2014 A former student opened fire at a high school in southeast Turkey on Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,31,49,38,74449,1856,8555,233,6803,301],"class_list":{"0":"post-165247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-evacuations","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-gunman-attacks-high-school-southeast-turkey","15":"tag-law-enforcement","16":"tag-military-and-defense","17":"tag-schools","18":"tag-shootings","19":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}