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A 14-year-old schoolboy shot eight classmates dead and killed a teacher in a ‘personal attack’ at his middle school in Turkey.

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It is Turkey’s second school shooting in two days.

The student who carried out the shooting is believed to have used guns that belonged to his father, a former police officer.

The student concealed the weapons in a backpack, entered two classrooms and opened fire ‘randomly’.

Horrifying footage seen by Metro shows the boy firing a pistol at a girl already lying on the ground.

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Eight students and one ​teacher died in the shooting in the province of Kahramanmaras, Turkey’s Interior Minister ​Mustafa Ciftci told reporters, adding that six of the wounded were ⁠in critical condition.

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‘This was solely a personal attack carried out by one of our ​students, it is not a terror incident,’ Ciftci said.

Earlier, Kahramanmaras Governor Mukerrem Unluer had said ​the shooter had shot and killed himself in the commotion.

Students jumping from a classroom window to escape a deadly school shooting (Picture: Reuters)

‘An eighth-grade student came with 5 weapons and 7 magazines – which we believe belong to his former police officer father – in his bag, entered ​two classrooms with fifth grade students, causing deaths and injuries indiscriminately,’ Unluer said.

Fifth-grade students ​are usually aged 10 and 11 in Turkey.

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It came the day after another 18-year-old gunman, who was recently expelled, wounded at least 16 people before killing himself.

Armed with a shotgun, he opened fire on anyone he could see at a vocational high school in Siverek in the province of Sanliurfa.

CCTV captured the moment his victims were shot. Trapped victims flee along a narrow corridor right past the shooter as he reloaded.

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