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At least 10 dead - including suspected lone gunman - in Austrian school shooting, police say
At least 10 people have been killed, and a dozen more injured, after a lone gunman opened fire at a school in the Austrian city of Graz, officials have said.
At a news conference on Tuesday afternoon, interior minister Gerhard Karner confirmed nine people were killed - six girls and three boys - and 12 more were injured. The suspected gunman, a male who acted alone, also died, he said.
Styrian State police director Gerald Ortner said they think the attacker, who was 21 and lived in Graz, killed himself in the toilet of the BORG Dreierschützengasse high school. He didn't name the suspected gunman, but said he used two weapons in the shooting spree, both of which were legally owned.
Mr Karner said he was a former student at the school who dropped out before finishing. Officials did not disclose any of the victims' ages, but BORG Dreierschützengasse is a federal upper secondary school, of the type which normally cater for students aged between 14 and 18, EuroEducation.net said on its website.
Read more:What we know so farLatest updates on shooting Special forces were among large numbers of police and security services deployed to the school at 10am local time after reports of shots being heard. At 11.30am, police said on X that the school had been evacuated and everyone had been taken to a safe meeting point.
The situation was "secured.
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