A 16-year-old youth in northwest Turkey sent a Whatsapp message saying he intended kill his girlfriend, before slaying her at their school and attempting to commit suicide, local media reported Friday.
"I'm going to go and kill her," H.C. wrote in the message to a group of his schoolfriends before he shot dead classmate Nilufer Acar in a classroom at their high school in the city of Bursa.
H.C. was hospitalised after his failed suicide attempt, Turkey's Dogan news agency reported.