Reports say police responding to gunfire at a school in Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish media reports say authorities have sent police and ambulances to a school in southeastern Turkey after gunfire was heard there.

Video footage from the scene showed at least two people being put into ambulances outside the middle school in Kahramanmaras province.

A day earlier, 16 people, mostly students, were wounded when a former student opened fire at a high school in nearby Sanliurfa province.

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