Austria is grief after shooting at the deadly school

It took place outside the school for at least a week, but the students continued on Wednesday morning, the day after a deadly shooting in Austria amazed the country.

They gathered across the street from high school, in a scent of other mourners, attackers and correspondents.

“The really important now is to speak, to be silent together, to listen,” said Paul Nights, 51, an evangelical shepherd who teaches religion at school who was standing in the street in front of the mourning area for students.

On Tuesday, a former student killed or wounded at least 10 people at school, Burge Dershings, in Grace, a quiet and dominant city, which is the second largest largest in Austria, after Vienna. The police said after that he seemed to have killed himself in a school bath.

Police said the shooter had a law on his weapons, a pistol and a gun. On Wednesday, the police said they found a pipe bomb when they searched the shooter on Tuesday afternoon.

Franz Rove, Director of Public Security at the Austrian Ministry of Interior, told public television that a “farewell speech” apparently written by the shooter had been found but it seems that it does not seem to include a motive for the attack.

It was one of the worst shootings in schools in Europe in the past decade.

Austrian Chancellor, Christian Sticker, canceled the appointments on Tuesday to travel to Graz and announced three days of national mourning – including a moment of silence at 10 am local time on Wednesday.

The news of the shooting of Austria, a nation in the Alps, was shocked by weapons ownership rates, but armed violence is relatively rare.

On Wednesday morning, I announced a title on the Kronen Zeitung website, the largest newspaper in the country: “The next day of the life: Austria is crying with Graz.”

The state police said that the gunman was 21 years old and had previously enrolled in school, but he never graduated. Six of his victims were female and three males, Although the authorities did not issue their names or ages, citing privacy laws. Another victim, a teacher, later died in the hospital.

Outside the school, the temporary shrines of candles, flowers and animals stuffed the school perimeter. Investigators and firefighters were still entering and leaving the buildings, but otherwise, the school buildings were dark and quiet.

The classrooms are outside the rest of the week, where school officials decide how to follow up. The summer vacation begins in early July, and many graduating students have not yet conducted their final exams before going to university.

“We are only unable to speak – it seems that this has not come from anywhere,” said Simon Sakkon, 20, a university student who spent his life in Graz. He lives near school and was among those who gathered abroad on Wednesday. “It is something you imagine happening in major cities or in the United States, but this will happen here?” He added.

The pasta was alone in a semester when he heard the shots. His first instinct was to hide and wait. “It was silent as if it were midnight,” he said. “Everyone was playing dead – smart.”

He said that after he seemed safe, he fled to a corridor where he saw the gunman trying to enter a closed door by shooting him. While he was racing away, he saw the body of one of the victims, a little girl, and he continued to run until he saw the police stormed: “A lot of uniform could be really comfortable.”

Bildes Halici, 39, who lived on the other side of the school, was preparing to work on Wednesday, and she is flowing on her face. She said that she tried to keep the news from her three children, but they heard about it on social media, and they were annoying and afraid.

“I have always said, the schools here are not safe,” said Ms. Hallisi. “With the arrival of people and going, the shopping center is like.”