Shotgun attacker kills 8 across 3 sites in western Turkey before capture
Police said the suspect was detained after a manhunt, and two teachers were among the eight people killed in the shootings.
- On Thursday, November 5, 2026, a gunman killed eight people and seriously injured one in a series of attacks across rural Afyonkarahisar province in Turkey, prompting a large-scale police manhunt.
- The state-run Anadolu Agency reported three victims near Ayazini village and three near Kiyir village, while two women died after being found with gunshot wounds in Yukaritandir village.
- Following the attacks, police closed roads leading to the affected villages and launched a large-scale operation to capture the suspect who fled the scene.
- In a statement, the Afyonkarahisar Governorate said, "all relevant institutions of our state have been working in coordination since the very first moment," offering condolences to grieving families.
- Investigators found the suspect's vehicle stuck in mud near Eskisehir, about 60 miles north, while checking for connections to an earlier shooting that injured a woman in Afyonkarahisar.
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Shotgun attacker kills 8 across 3 sites in western Turkey before capture
An attacker armed with a shotgun has killed eight people in three locations in western Turkey. The shootings happened on Thursday, according to officials and news reports.
Police arrested a suspect in western Turkey after eight people were shot in two separate incidents, reported the public news agency Anadolu on Thursday. ...
A rural area in central Turkey witnessed a shooting incident that killed eight people in three villages, while authorities began extensive operations to pursue the execution.
Images of video surveillance, of poor quality and broadcast by the Turkish media, show the suspect, wearing black jackets and white pants, wearing glasses, holding a rifle near a loose red monospace. "Hight of our citizens lost their lives and another was seriously injured in an armed attack in our province," said the governor of Afyonkarahisar. "The incident occurred early in the evening in a rural area near Afyonkarahisar, a town halfway betwe…
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