Nine people killed in Austrian school shooting
At least nine people have been killed and scores injured in a shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria.
The shooting, police confirmed in a post on X, happened at Dreierschützengasse high school, Graz, on Tuesday.
The police confirmed the shooter was among the dead.
Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker, in a post on X commisrated with the families of the shooting victims.
“The school shooting in Graz is a national tragedy that has deeply shaken our entire country. This unimaginable act suddenly tore young people from the lives they still had ahead of them,” Mr Stocker said.
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