Thirteen-year-old kills four at Turkish school with father's pistols

A 13-year-old student opened fire at a secondary school in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkiye on April 15, killing at least four people and wounding 20 others. The assailant entered the building with five pistols and seven magazines, which Al Jazeera reports were obtained from his retired police officer father. The shooting represents a rare but serious incident of school violence in Turkiye, where gun violence is comparatively less common than in some other countries. Authorities are investigating how a minor accessed the weapons and whether security protocols at the school failed to prevent the attack.