After the bloodiest shooting in modern Austrian history claimed the lives of 11 people, including the shooter, Graz is in shock, grief, and bewilderment. The possibility that this could have occurred here, in our location, was unthinkable. “The entire city is having a depressing day,” Reka, who lives near the school, said.
Austria has been spared the agony of mass shootings at schools for many years. However, at around 10:00 on Tuesday, a former pupil went ape-shit at a secondary school in the Dreierschützengasse, near the major station in the second-biggest city in Austria. Classes were in session in the morning when the attack occurred. Some pupils would have sat for their final exams at the school.
Three men and six women had perished by the time it was finished. An adult lady who was the seventh victim passed away in the hospital a few hours later. A number of people, some with serious injuries, are still in the hospital.
At the school, the shooter, a 21-year-old Austrian national with two guns, committed suicide. He is said to have considered himself a victim of bullying and was a former student who failed his final examinations.
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