Suspect arrested after shootings kill eight in western Turkey

A suspect has been arrested after shootings in Afyonkarahisar province in western Turkey killed eight people and seriously injured one, authorities said. The suspect was apprehended alive in Eskişehir province in a joint operation involving police and gendarmerie, according to the Eskişehir Governor’s Office. The shootings took place at several locations in Afyonkarahisar province. The Afyonkarahisar Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office said the locations included central Afyonkarahisar, İhsaniye district and Anıtkaya, and announced that it had opened an investigation. The Afyonkarahisar Governor’s Office gave the death and serious-injury toll. Anadolu Agency reported that three people were found dead in each of Kıyır and Ayazini. Two women found with gunshot wounds in Yukarıtandır later died in hospital, bringing the reported death toll to eight. The governor’s office said one other person was seriously injured. Afyonkarahisar’s provincial education director, İsmail Altınkaynak, identified two of the victims as teachers at Yukarıtandır Middle School. The prosecutor’s office assigned a deputy chief public prosecutor and three public prosecutors to the investigation. Earlier...