GRAZ, Austria (AP) — At the very least 9 individuals had been killed and 12 wounded in a taking pictures at a faculty within the Austrian metropolis of Graz on Tuesday, and the suspected perpetrator additionally died, the town’s mayor mentioned.
Particular forces had been amongst these despatched to the BORG Dreierschützengasse highschool, a few kilometer (over half a mile) from Graz’s historic middle, after a name at 10 a.m. At 11.30 a.m., police wrote on social community X that the college had been evacuated and everybody had been taken to a protected assembly level.
Authorities say the assailant was a 21-year-old Austrian man who had two weapons, which he appeared to have owned legally. Police mentioned they didn’t instantly have data on the person’s motive, however mentioned that he killed himself in a rest room after fatally taking pictures 9 individuals.
Austrian Inside Minister Gerhard Karner mentioned at a press convention in Graz that the shooter was a former scholar on the college who didn’t end his research.
Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker mentioned there could be three days of nationwide mourning, with the Austrian flag lowered to half-staff and a nationwide minute of mourning at 10 a.m. Wednesday. He mentioned that it was “a dark day in the history of our country.”
Police deployed in massive numbers, with police and different emergency automobiles guarding the realm across the college and with a minimum of one police helicopter flying above the realm, in accordance with photographs revealed by the regional newspaper Kleine Zeitung.
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Graz, Austria’s second-biggest metropolis, is situated within the southeast of the nation and has about 300,000 inhabitants.
Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker, who’s going to Graz, mentioned the taking pictures “is a national tragedy that deeply shocks our whole country.”
“There are no words for the pain and grief that all of us — the whole of Austria — feel now,” he wrote in an announcement posted on X.
President Alexander Van der Bellen mentioned that “this horror cannot be captured in words.”
“These were young people who had their whole lives ahead of them. A teacher who accompanied them on their way,” he mentioned.
“Schools are symbols for youth, hope and the future,” European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen wrote on X. “It is hard to bear when schools become places of death and violence.”
