VIENNA: A former pupil killed 9 individuals after which himself at a secondary college within the southern Austrian metropolis of Graz on Tuesday (Jun 10) within the worst college capturing within the nation’s fashionable historical past.
Inside Minister Gerhard Karner mentioned six of the victims have been feminine and three have been male, and that 12 individuals have been additionally injured. He gave no additional particulars to determine the victims, however Austrian media mentioned most have been pupils.
The motive for an assault that shocked the nation was not but identified. However police mentioned they assumed the 21-year-old Austrian shooter, who was discovered useless in a toilet, was working alone when he entered the college with two weapons and opened fireplace.
“The rampage at a faculty in Graz is a nationwide tragedy that has deeply shaken our complete nation,” Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker mentioned, calling it a “darkish day within the historical past of our nation”.
“There are not any phrases for the ache and grief that all of us – all of Austria – are feeling proper now.”
Stocker travelled to Graz the place, at a press convention alongside different officers, together with Karner, he introduced three days of nationwide mourning, with a minute’s silence to be held on Wednesday morning.
On the scene, police had arrange a fringe a couple of hundred meters away from the college, barring entry routes with police automobiles after evacuating the college. Kin of the victims and pupils have been being cared for.
The Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper mentioned in an unconfirmed report that the suspect had been a sufferer of bullying.
Armed with a pistol and shotgun, he opened fireplace on pupils in two lecture rooms, one in every of which had as soon as been his personal, it mentioned.
