Law enforcement officials are seen in a road close to a faculty the place a gunman opened fireplace Tuesday morning in Graz, Austria.
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BERLIN — A gunman killed 9 individuals Tuesday morning after opening fireplace at a faculty within the southern Austrian metropolis of Graz. Police say the shooter can also be useless, in what they consider was a suicide.
Police first responded to studies 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 individuals and injured 12 others.
Among the many useless have been six feminine and three male victims, police stated, however they didn’t specify the ages of the useless or what number of have been college students or lecturers.
Minutes after the taking pictures began, police arrived and evacuated the varsity. In all, 300 law enforcement officials have 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, useless 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 identify or every other particulars about him, solely saying that he was not identified to police and that he possessed a license for the weapons.
“There aren’t any phrases to explain the ache, the disbelief and the grief that every one of Austria feels proper now,” stated Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker at a day press convention in Graz. “Our nation 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 individuals. 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.
