Boy, 14, kills nine people in Turkey's second school shooting in two days

A 14-year-old schoolboy shot eight classmates dead and killed a teacher in a ‘personal attack’ at his middle school in Turkey.

It is Turkey’s second school shooting in two days.

The student who carried out the shooting is believed to have used guns that belonged to his father,a former police officer.

The student concealed the weapons in a backpack,entered two classrooms and opened fire ‘randomly’.

Horrifying footage seen by Metro shows the boy firing a pistol at a girl already lying on the ground.

Eight students and one ​teacher died in the shooting in the province of Kahramanmaras,Turkey’s Interior Minister ​Mustafa Ciftci told reporters,adding that six of the wounded were ⁠in critical condition.

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Start your day informed with Metro's News Updates newsletter or get Breaking News alerts the moment it happens.‘This was solely a personal attack carried out by one of our ​students,it is not a terror incident,’ Ciftci said.Earlier,Kahramanmaras Governor Mukerrem Unluer had said ​the shooter had shot and killed himself in the commotion.Students jumping from a classroom window to escape a deadly school shooting (Picture: Reuters)‘An eighth-grade student came with 5 weapons and 7 magazines – which we believe belong to his former police officer father – in his bag,entered ​two classrooms with fifth grade students,causing deaths and injuries indiscriminately,’ Unluer said.Fifth-grade students ​are usually aged 10 and 11 in Turkey.It came the day after another 18-year-old gunman,who was recently expelled,wounded at least 16 people before killing himself.Armed with a shotgun,he opened fire on anyone he could see at a vocational high school in Siverek in the province of Sanliurfa.