At least eight folks have been killed in a shooting at a school in the Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday (June 10, 2025), and the suspected perpetrator additionally died, the city’s mayor mentioned.
Mayor Elke Kahr described the occasions as a “terrible tragedy,” the Austria Press Agency reported. It added that the fatalities have been seven college students and one grownup. Ms. Kahr mentioned that many individuals have been taken to hospitals with accidents.
Police mentioned they imagine the assailant acted alone.
Rescue service personnel attend the scene of a shooting at a school in Graz, Austria, on June 10, 2025
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Special forces have been amongst these despatched to the BORG Dreierschützengasse excessive school, a few kilometer (over half a mile) from Graz’s historic heart, after a name at 10 a.m. At 11.30 a.m., police wrote on social community X that the school had been evacuated and everybody had been taken to a secure assembly level. They wrote that the scenario was “secured” and there’s no longer believed to be any hazard.
Police deployed in massive numbers, with police and different emergency autos guarding the realm across the school and with a minimum of one police helicopter flying above the realm, in accordance with photographs printed by the regional newspaper Kleine Zeitung.
Graz, Austria’s second-biggest city, is situated in the southeast of the nation and has about 300,000 inhabitants.
Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker, who’s going to Graz, mentioned the shooting “is a national tragedy that deeply shocks our whole country.”
“There are no words for the pain and grief that all of us — the whole of Austria — feel now,” he wrote in an announcement posted on X.
Police officers attend the scene of a shooting at a school in Graz, Austria o June 10, 2025
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President Alexander Van der Bellen mentioned that “this horror cannot be captured in words.”
“These were young people who had their whole lives ahead of them. A teacher who accompanied them on their way,” he mentioned.
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner was additionally on his option to Graz.
“Schools are symbols for youth, hope and the future,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote on X. “It is hard to bear when schools become places of death and violence.”
Published – June 10, 2025 03:12 pm IST
