What do we know about mass shooting grats

Students sat in their classes in high school in Graz when a 21-year-old Austrian man shot nine people before killing himself.

Twelve people were injured in Tuesday’s morning violence, and one person dies hours later in the hospital from the injuries.

The incident has become the most deadly mass shooting in Austria’s recent history, and the country has announced three days of mourning.

Police still investigates why the militant is a former student who has not completed his studies – attacked.

That’s what we know so far.

The first shot was heard through the high school of the Draste Congress, northwest of Graz, near the main railway station, at about 10:00 local time (09:00 BST), initially causing confusion in what was happening.

“It was a shot? It couldn’t be true. Something probably hit the construction site across the road,” said a 17-year-old student recognized by her friend, Kleine Zeitung reports.

One student said Die Presse that when the shots sounded, his teacher immediately blocked the class.

Another student told the document that at first she thought the shots were firecrackers, but then they shouted and we ran. ”

The local resident of Astrid, who lives in the building near the school, said the BBC that heard 30 or 40 shots. Her husband Franz called the police.

“We saw one student in the window – it looked as if he was preparing to jump … But then he returned inside,” Franz said.

Later, the couple saw the students “left the school on the first floor, on the other hand, where they” gathered outside, “Franz said.

The shooter took his own life in the school bathroom shortly after the weapon attack, the authorities said.

Police have led the situation under the control of 17 minutes. More than 300 police officers, including the COBRA specialized tactical block, were deployed to school.

Six women and three men were killed in the attack, and the seventh woman died later in the hospital. The APA Austrian agency reports that seven were killed.

The victims have not yet named the authorities.

One woman, Torres, reported BBC News on the Home Square on Wednesday that one of the dead boys knows. He was 17.

“I have known this family for a long time, including my son, and knew he was studying at this school. I immediately called to ask if everything was fine. Then they let me know at noon that the boy was one of those who stabbed,” she said.

“What happened yesterday is quite terribly, all Austria in mourning,” she said. “It’s awful for all Austria.”

The injured people were in a stable condition on Wednesday, Austrian media reported.

A 21-year-old guy who was not yet named was Austrian from the wide GRC region, which was alone, police said.

He was a former student of the Dreeshwesengas, who did not graduate from the school, Interior Minister Gerhard Carner said at a press conference on Tuesday.

In a statement on Wednesday, police said she found a “farewell letter” and a non -functional bomb while searching for a suspect’s house. Authorities did not confirm the motive of the militant.

The current information believes that the shooter legally belonged to two rifles used in the attack and had a firearms license, the police added.

In Austria, there is one of the most armed civilian populations in Europe, about 30 firearms per 100 people, a survey of an independent research project.

Machine guns and pumping weapons are prohibited, and revolvers, pistols and semi -automatic weapons are only allowed with official permission. Rifles and rifles are allowed with a gunshot -weapon license or a valid hunting license or for traditional shooting members.

The school shots are rare. There have been several incidents that have participated much fewer victims over the years:

• In 2018, a 19-year-old guy was shot by another youth in Mestelbach, north of Vienna
• In 2012, his father shot his father in St. Peelten
• In 1997, a 15-year-old guy killed a teacher in Zeberna and seriously injured another
• In 1993, a 13-year-old boy in Hauslisten seriously injured the main teacher and then killed himself

The most violent attack on Austria’s weapons in recent years has taken place in the heart of Vienna in November 2020. Four people were killed and 22 were injured when the convicted jihadist ran the center of the city’s fire before he was shot dead.

Fanny Gaser, a journalist of the Austrian daily newspaper Kronen Zeitung, told the BBC News that the school was probably unprepared for the possibility of the attack.

“We don’t live in America, we live in Austria, which seems very safe space.”