(10 Jun 2025)
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Graz, Austria – 10 June 2025
1. Wide of school and police
2. Mid of police officer talking to local resident
3. Mid of graffiti on school reading (German) “Our school)
4. Wide of police barrier and residents
5. SOUNBITE (German) Tamara Jankovic, local resident, originally from Croatia:
“Around 10 o’clock I was in my apartment. I heard police sirens – unnaturally many and loud. When I got to my balcony I saw special police forces with rifles which ran around the buildings and in this street here.”
6. Wide of police talking to woman
7. Wide of police barrier
8. SOUNBITE (German) Tamara Jankovic, local resident, originally from Croatia:
“Especially for Graz this is very terrible. In general, this is terrible – because many many families with small children, school children, live here. Since I have been living here nothing like that ever happened. It’s a tragedy, simply a tragedy."
9. Mid of police talking to man
STORYLINE:
A former student opened fire at a school in Austria’s second-biggest city on Tuesday, killing nine people and wounding at least 12 others before taking his own life, authorities said.
There was no immediate information on the motive of the 21-year-old man, who had no previous police record.
He used two weapons, which he was believed to have owned legally, police said.
A national minute of silence is to be held on Wednesday morning in memory of the victims.
Special forces were among those sent to the BORG Dreierschützengasse high school, about a kilometer (over half a mile) from Graz’s historic center, after calls at 10 a.m. reporting shots the building.
More than 300 police officers were sent to the school, which was evacuated.
Police said security was restored in 17 minutes.
The assailant, who acted alone, was a 21-year-old Austrian man who lived near Graz, police said. His name wasn’t released.
Regional police chief Gerald Ortner said two firearms — a long gun and a handgun — were used in the shooting and recovered from the scene, and that the assailant was apparently legally in possession of them.
The man took his own life in a bathroom.
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said the gunman had been a student at the school and hadn’t completed his studies. He didn’t specify when the man left the school or at what age.
Karner said six of the dead were female and three male, but didn’t give further information.
Austria’s Red Cross said it had deployed 65 ambulances to the scene and 158 emergency staffers were helping treat the injured. In addition, 40 specially trained psychologists were counseling students and parents.
The Red Cross also called on locals to come forward and donate blood.
Tuesday’s violence appeared to be the deadliest attack in Austria’s post-World War II history.
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