03.05.2026 11:41
18 days after the attack in Kahramanmaraş where a 14-year-old attacker used 5 guns to target a school, resulting in 9 deaths, another tragic report has emerged. Almina Ağaoğlu, 11, who was seriously wounded in the attack and hospitalized, passed away at the hospital in the morning hours during her treatment.
Almina Ağaoğlu, wounded by two bullets to her head during an attack organized by İsa Aras Mersinli (14) with 5 guns and 7 magazines belonging to her father, former police chief inspector Uğur Mersinli, at Ayser Çalık Middle School in the central Onikişubat district of Kahramanmaraş, passed away early this morning at the hospital where she was being treated.
YOUNG CHILD LOSES 18-DAY BATTLE FOR LIFE
Succumbing to the life struggle she had been fighting for 18 days in intensive care, the news of Ağaoğlu's death brought her family to tears. Almina Ağaoğlu's body was taken from the hospital to the Kahramanmaraş Forensic Medicine Institute morgue. After the autopsy, Ağaoğlu will be laid to rest in Kapıçam City Cemetery.
NUMBER OF FATALITIES RISES TO 10
In the attack, 1 teacher and 8 students lost their lives, and 17 people were injured. With the death of Almina Ağaoğlu, the number of fatalities in the incident has risen to 10.
İsa Aras Mersinli also lost his life during the scuffle in the attack.
THE INCIDENT
In the attack organized by 14-year-old student İsa Aras Mersinli with his former police father's weapons at Ayser Çalık Middle School in Kahramanmaraş on April 15, 1 teacher and 9 students lost their lives. Mersinli also died in the attack.
After the attack, the father, whose statements were taken, said the weapons at home belonged to him but that his son did not know where they were and had no access to them, while the mother stated that her son had been displaying withdrawn behavior and experiencing anger control issues for some time, but they could not foresee such an attack. Contrary to the family's statements after the attack, numerous photographs of the attacker Mersinli posing with the weapons and footage of his father taking him to the shooting range to practice shooting emerged.
Regarding the incident, the mother, Turkish Language and Literature Teacher Peyman Pınar Mersinli, and the father, police chief inspector Uğur Mersinli, were arrested. It was stated that psychologists from two different institutions noted before the incident that the perpetrator needed child psychiatry support, but the mother did not take the suggestions into account.
Following the incident, education at the school was suspended, and it was decided that students and teachers would continue their education at Şehit Tebernuş Özler Middle School, while preschool students would continue at Şirinler Kindergarten.