At least nine people have lost their lives after a gunman opened fire at an educational facility in Graz, Austria.
The shooting took place at the BORG Dreierschützengasse high school, with multiple injuries also reported.
The gunman is reported to have entered classrooms at 10am local time this morning before opening fire.
President Alexander Van der Bellen described the incident as a “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 said.
The gunman is reported to have been a 22-year-old student and to have taken his own life by turning his weapon on himself.
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner was on his way 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.”
Chancellor Christain Stocker called the incident a “national tragedy” which cannot be expressed in words.
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