No fewer than eight people were shot dead in three villages in west-central Turkey on Thursday, local officials said, as police pressed a major manhunt to find the gunman.

“Unfortunately, eight of our citizens have lost their lives, and one has been seriously injured in armed attacks in our province,” the Afyonkarahisar governor’s office said.

The shooting struck in a rural area near Afyonkarahisar, a town halfway between the capital Ankara and the coastal city of Izmir.

Two women with gunshot wounds were found on a road in Yukaritandir village, and despite being rushed to hospital, both died, Anadolu state news agency said.

Three more bodies were found in Kiyir village, which lies a half-hour drive to the northeast, and another three in Ayazini village, a further half-hour drive east, it said.

Another person found in critical condition was fighting for their life in hospital, it said, without saying where they had been injured.

Grainy CCTV footage published by Turkish media showed a man in a black jacket, white trousers and glasses clutching a rifle as he stood by a faded red minivan.

Police later found the red vehicle stuck in the mud on the outskirts of the university town of Eskisehir, which lies about 100 kilometres (60 miles) to the north, the suspect having fled on foot, the private NTV channel said.

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DHA news agency said investigators were looking to see if there was any connection with an earlier incident in the centre of Afyonkarahisar in which a woman in a car was shot and seriously injured by a gunman.

In late October, PUNCH Online reported the death of a 15-year-old Ghanaian boy, Javits Frimpong, who was shot dead while walking near his school in the Bronx borough of New York, United States, according to CBS News.

Frimpong was shot once in the abdomen shortly before 9:30 am on Thursday near East 171st Street and Crotona Place in the Claremont section of the Bronx, according to the New York Police Department.

CBS News, which reported the incident, said police took the teenager to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

On November 3, The PUNCH reported that three yet-to-be-identified homeless men were shot dead while sleeping at the Post Office Bus Stop on Adeola Odeku Street in the Victoria Island area of Lagos State.

It was gathered that the victims were among about 10 destitute persons sleeping at the bus stop when two men on power bikes arrived at the spot and attacked them.

AFP

Source: Punch · Agency Report

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