Death toll rises to 9 in Austria school shooting: media
At least nine people were killed in a school shooting in Austria's second-largest city of Graz, local media reported on Tuesday, Xinhua reports.
Several students and teachers were seriously injured, local media cited the police as saying. The suspected perpetrator is believed to have killed himself, reports added.
According to Austria's largest newspaper, Kronen Zeitung, the incident occurred at the school in the Lend district shortly before 10 a.m. (0800 GMT) on Tuesday.
Police have been mobilized in the region, with a helicopter deployed. The school has been evacuated, and further danger is excluded, local police stated on the social media platform X.
As written before, one was killed, multiple were injured in the Florida State University shooting in April this year.
