Death toll in Kahramanmaras school shooting rises to 11

A school shooting in Onikisubat, in Turkey's Kahramanmaras Province, left a rising number of people dead. The first report said nine people were killed and 13 others were injured. The perpetrator died by suicide. The next day the death toll rose to 11, including the perpetrator, after a critically injured victim died.

A school shooting is an attack with a gun at a school. Onikisubat is the district named as the site, inside Kahramanmaras Province. The first accounting separated nine people killed and 13 injured, and said the perpetrator died by suicide. The updated toll of 11 includes the perpetrator and reflects the later death of someone who had been critically hurt.

The attack was described as the deadliest school shooting in Turkish history. That comparison was made with the earlier casualty report and stands as the characterization of the event. The report does not give the attacker's age or name in the Onikisubat account. It does not describe the weapon beyond the fact of a shooting.

A critically injured victim who later dies moves from the injured column into the dead. That is why tolls change a day later without a second attack. The rise to 11 is that kind of revision. Thirteen injured was the first injury count, and the report of the rise does not publish a new injury total after the one death.

A separate shooting the previous day in Siverek, Sanliurfa Province, wounded 16 people at a school before the 19-year-old attacker killed himself. That is a different incident in a different province. It is not part of the Onikisubat toll. The Kahramanmaras case is the one whose deaths reached 11, including the perpetrator.

The Onikisubat school shooting has a death toll of 11, including the attacker. A critically injured person died after the first report of nine killed and 13 injured. Authorities called it the deadliest school shooting in Turkey's history. The revised toll was reported on April 16.