Law enforcement officials are seen in a road close to a faculty the place a gunman opened hearth Tuesday morning in Graz, Austria.
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BERLIN — A gunman killed 9 folks Tuesday morning after opening hearth at a faculty within the southern Austrian metropolis of Graz. Police say the shooter can be lifeless, in what they imagine was a suicide.
Police first responded to stories of gunfire at 10 a.m. native time on the Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium Dreierschützengasse, a secondary college within the northwest of town. They later discovered that the gunman had shot and killed 9 folks and injured 12 others.
Among the many lifeless had been six feminine and three male victims, police mentioned, however they didn’t specify the ages of the lifeless or what number of had been college students or academics.
Minutes after the taking pictures began, police arrived and evacuated the varsity. In all, 300 law enforcement officials had been on the scene in addition to 160 paramedics.
Police say they later discovered the suspected shooter, a 21-year-old man who was a former scholar on the college, lifeless from an obvious self-inflicted gun wound in a faculty restroom. They are saying the shooter acted alone and that he introduced two weapons with him to the varsity — a rifle and a handgun.
They didn’t launch the suspect’s title or every other particulars about him, solely saying that he was not recognized to police and that he possessed a license for the weapons.
“There are no words to describe the pain, the disbelief and the grief that all of Austria feels right now,” mentioned Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker at a day press convention in Graz. “Our country has fallen silent in horror.”
Stocker referred to as for 3 days of nationwide mourning in a rustic the place mass shootings are exceedingly uncommon.
Austria, with a inhabitants of 9 million, has one of the crucial closely armed civilian populations in Europe, with an estimated 30 firearms per 100 folks. Machine weapons and pump motion weapons are banned, however the possession of revolvers, pistols and even semi-automatic weapons is allowed so long as candidates undergo a allowing and licensing course of.
