Turkey buried the victims of a school shooting in Kahramanmaras on Thursday, a day after a 14-year-old student opened fire at a middle school in the southern province, killing eight classmates aged around 11 and a 55-year-old teacher, and wounding 20 others. The attack — one of the deadliest school shootings in the country's modern history — came just a day after a separate shooting at a school in Sanliurfa, a city in Turkey's southeast, which left 16 people injured. Both suspected attackers died following their respective incidents, though an autopsy in the Kahramanmaras case suggested the teenager may have died from a cut to his leg rather than a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police say initial findings indicate the Kahramanmaras attacker had used an image on his WhatsApp profile referencing Elliot Rodger, the American gunman who killed six students near Santa Barbara, California in 2014 before taking his own life. Rodger, whose online manifesto detailed grievances about social rejection, has since been invoked by a number of school shooters around the world. Turkish police said they believe the attack was the act of a lone individual with no terrorist connections, though investigators found a document on the teenager's computer, dated April 11, suggesting a major attack was being planned. The boy's father, a former police officer who had taken his son to a shooting range to practice with pistols, has been jailed pending trial after five of his service weapons were used in the attack.

The shootings have triggered a wave of arrests and online censorship, with 162 people detained across Turkey for allegedly glorifying the crimes on social media, and more than 1,000 accounts and Telegram groups blocked. The justice minister cited the spread of