Authorities say a shooter opened fire inside a school in the city of Graz on Tuesday, killing nine people
A shooter opened fire inside a school in Austria’s second-biggest city Tuesday, killing nine people, authorities said.
At least 12 others were wounded in the attack, and the gunman later died by suicide in a bathroom in the school in Graz, officials said.
Details about the suspect’s motive, as well as information about the victims, were not immediately available.
Here’s what we know:
The shooter opened fire at a school in Graz, killing nine people and wounding at least 12 others before taking his own life, authorities said.
Special forces were among those sent to the BORG Dreierschützengasse high school, about a kilometer (over half a mile) from Graz’s historic center, after a call at 10 a.m.
At 11:30 a.m., police wrote on social network X that the school had been evacuated and everyone had been taken to a safe meeting point.
Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker said there would be three days of national mourning, with the Austrian flag lowered to half-staff and a national minute of mourning at 10 a.
