10 was killed in an attack at the Austrian school, including the shooter

The authorities said that nine people were killed in a gunfire in a school in the Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, and the suspected perpetrator also died.

Police said at a press conference in the afternoon that the suspect, a 21 -year -old Austrian citizen, killed himself in a bathroom at Burg Drichings High School. Police said they had no motive to attack, although they said he had previously attended the school.

Two rifles are found at the scene.

Interior Minister Gerhard Karener said that there were six victims and three male victims, although officials said they were not yet ready to say the number of students or faculty members.

At least 12 others were seriously injured, some of them seriously.

The government said that there will be three days of national mourning.

“The argument in a school in Geriz is a national tragedy that has shook our entire country,” said Austrian Chancellor Christian Stcker in a statement.

“There are no words of the pain and sadness that we all feel – all Austria – at the present time,” he added.

Police announces that the area is safe after 90 minutes

The Special Forces were among those who were sent to Burg Drishoshchesa after a call at 10 am local time.

At 11:30 am local time, the police wrote on the social network X that the school was evacuated and that everyone had been transferred to a safe meeting point. They wrote that the situation is “guaranteed” and there is no longer any danger.

Graz, the second largest city in Austria, is located in the southeast of the country and has about 300,000 people.

In Brussels, the European Union offered my condolences.

“Schools are symbols of youth, hope and the future,” wrote the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Lin on X. “It is difficult to bear when schools become places of death and violence.”