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Sacked state employee shoots six dead at Turkish Statistical Institute | Sacked state employee shoots six dead at Turkish Statistical Institute |
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A former state employee has shot dead six people at the Turkish Statistical Institute, TurkStat, in the eastern province of Kars before killing himself, state broadcaster TRT Haber reports. | |
Kars governor Eyup Tepe said the attacker had carried out the shooting after being dismissed from his job at TurkStat, known in Turkey as Tüik. | |
"The incident was not a terrorist attack," the Hürriyet daily website quoted Tepe as saying. "The attacker's name was Veysi Erin. He worked as a psychologist at Tüik." A Tüik official confirmed that seven people had died and one person had been slightly wounded, but provided no further details. | |
Tüik's local manager was among those killed in the attack, Hürriyet said on its website. | |
Political tensions are high in Turkey this month ahead of local elections on 30 March and amid a corruption scandal dogging prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government. |
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