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‘I Always Felt Very Protected There’: Austria Grapples with Rare School Shooting
- A mass shooting occurred on June 10 at BORG Dreierschützengasse high school in Graz, Austria, killing 10 people including the shooter.
- The 21-year-old attacker, a former student who had not graduated, used two legally possessed firearms before dying by suicide inside a bathroom at the school.
- During the evacuation of the school and the deployment of helicopters, police searched the assailant’s residence and uncovered a goodbye letter, a recorded video message, an inert homemade explosive device, and discarded bomb-making plans.
- The Austrian government announced a three-day period of national mourning, observed a minute of silence nationwide at 10 a.m. on June 11, and residents in Graz organized candlelight vigils, while students were provided with counseling services.
- The attack, one of Austria's deadliest, prompted a rare political unity and calls for tighter gun laws even though motive remains unknown and investigations continue.
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A great deal of sympathy with a touching funeral service for 15-year-old schoolgirl who had to give her life at the amok run in Graz. Now she takes her last trip to the old home. Representatives of the Styrian Muslims, however, laid a wreath in front of the school. Hundreds of people flocked to the Association of Bosniaks Styria in Graz-Putigam on Friday afternoon to attend the funeral service for the 15-year-old Hannah, who is one of the victim…
‘I always felt very protected there’: Austria grapples with rare school shooting
Hundreds lined the central square in Graz, Austria, for a minute of silence for the 10 people killed in a school shooting on June. In a search of the shooter’s home, investigators found a farewell letter, video, and a non-functional pipe bomb.
Austria comes to a standstill to mourn school shooting victims
By Francois Murphy
Austria Comes to a Standstill to Mourn School Shooting Victims
GRAZ, Austria—Austria came to a standstill on Wednesday to mourn victims of one of the worst outbreaks of violence in its modern history, as authorities search for clues to why a 21-year-old gunman shot dead 10 people at his former high school before killing himself. Police said the man had acted alone in Tuesday’s rampage, armed with a shotgun and a pistol. They are scouring his home and the internet to find out why he opened fire at the school…
After the shooting at a high school, the people of Graz are in shock. They come in large numbers to memorials on Wednesday to light candles. On Tuesday, hundreds of people also responded to a call to donate blood.
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