A 33-year-old man shot seven people dead in İstanbul on Sunday, including his parents, his wife and his 10-year-old son, before taking his own life, Agence France-Presse reported on Monday, citing authorities.
The man, identified as Bahtiyar Aladağ who was found dead in his car shortly after the shooting, is also accused of wounding two other family members, one of them seriously, the İstanbul Governor’s Office said in a statement.
The authorities, who had put the death toll at four on Sunday evening, announced on Monday the discovery near a lake on İstanbul’s European shore of the bodies of the killer’s wife and son, as well as the lifeless body of his mother-in-law.
According to the Small Arms Survey (SAS), a Swiss research program, over 13.2 million firearms are in circulation in Turkey, most of them illegally, for a population of around 85 million.