Student wounds eight girls in knife attack at Istanbul middle school

Mixed · 2A teenage girl wounded eight girls at a middle school in the Başakşehir district of Istanbul on 6 October, stabbing pupils indiscriminately with a knife, according to officials. 1 2 Mixed · 2The attack took place at around 8.40am local time. 1 2 Mixed · 2Health Minister Kemal Memişoğlu said eight people were injured, one in critical condition and two in moderate-to-serious condition, and that all were being treated in hospital. 1 2

Mixed · 2Istanbul Governor Davut Gül said five pupils had minor injuries and were expected to be discharged later in the day, while two were in serious condition and one was undergoing surgery. 1 2 Left · 1The Mirror quoted the governor as saying the two students still in treatment showed a positive improvement in their condition. 2 Mixed · 2The governor said the attacker lives in the same neighbourhood and attends a different school, and that she entered the premises in a school uniform; she has been detained by police. 1 2

Mixed · 2AFP reported the suspect as a 15-year-old 10th-grade student from another school, while the Mirror, citing local reports, named her school as Fahreddin Kerim Gokay Anatolian High School and said the victims were aged 10 to 13. 1 2 Right · 1Başakşehir District Governor Cemil Özgür Önegi gave a toll of seven injured and said the attacker, identified as F.M., was a 10th-grade student at a high school in another district, so the official casualty figures differed. 1 Right · 1AFP noted that in September a teenager opened fire outside a school in western Turkey, wounding 11 pupils, and that two shooting attacks by teenagers in southern Turkey in April had raised public concern about school security. 1