11 hurt as teen opens fire outside Turkey school

People walk past a vocational and technical high school in the Turgutlu district of Manisa province, western Turkey, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, after a gunman opened fire near the school. (Photo: AP)

A teenager opened fire outside a high school in western Turkey on Tuesday, wounding 11 people before being detained by police, a minister said.

The incident happened around 8:00 am (0500 GMT) in Turgutlu in Manisa province, near the western resort city of Izmir, the regional governor's office said.

School shootings are rare in Turkey, although there were two attacks in April on consecutive days in southern Turkey that sparked widespread anger.

"Eleven students were injured, two of them seriously.. The minor who carried out the attack was quickly apprehended and taken into custody," Justice Minister Akin Gurlek wrote on X.

He said the suspect's parents and grandfather had also been detained by investigators probing the attack, which saw police and rescuers rushing to the scene alongside panicked parents.

DHA news agency broadcast CCTV footage of the alleged attacker, a young man wearing black jeans, a black jacket and a green top walking along a street holding what appeared to be a long-barrelled gun.

IHA had a similar image of what appeared to be the same person with a gun, although this time running.

NTV private television said it was a shotgun.

Footage from outside the school showed police wrestling a man in a white shirt to the ground before leading him away, as a woman screamed, with onlookers pressed against the school fence, filming with their mobile phones.

Authorities have opened an investigation into the incident, Gurlek said.

"How the weapon used in the attack ended up in the minor's hands, the conditions under which it was kept and supervised.. and allegations of bullying prior to the incident are all being investigated," he wrote on X.

The education ministry said all lessons were suspended for the day at the school.