What do we know about mass murder in the school in the Austrian Grac – BBC News in Serbian

Students were sitting in high school in Graz when a 21-year-old Austrian killed ten people to then commit suicide.

12 more people were injured in shooting 10. June in the morning, but then one person – a teacher said in the hospital, which, as soon as the number of victims climbed 10.

This attack was the most deadly mass shooting in the Austrian soon past and a three-day sore was declared.

The police still investigate why the attacker, a former student who did not finish high school, performed an attack.

Here’s what we know so far.

What happened?

The first shot in the High School of Drajeršicengas, in the northeastern part of Graz, near the train station, has heard about 10 am local time, causing confusion.

« Was it a shot? Impossible. It must have fallen from the construction site across, » said the 17-year-old student F. comrade newspapers Klajne Cajtung.

Another student said that, when the shootings were heard, their teacher immediately locked the classroom, newspapers reported Di presses.

At first I thought the fireworks was heard and then « scream and we ran out, » said one of those present at the time of the attack for Di presses.

Paul Niče, a religion in school, told the news agency AFP that he was in the classroom when he heard « Beng », and then the sound of the sleeves falling to the floor in the hall.

« Something broke in me, I jumped and decided to run, » he said.

As he fled, he saw the attacker for a moment.

« As I ran down the stairs, I thought, ‘This doesn’t happen really’. »

Astrid, who lives in a building next to the school, said for the BBC that he heard 30-40 shootings.

Her husband Franc called the police.

« We saw one student at the window – it looked like she was getting ready to jump … but then he returned inside, » Franc said.

The couple then widen that the students came out of the school on the other side of the building and that they gathered on the street.

The attacker fought suicide soon after the attack in the school restroom, officials said.

Police received the first call exactly at 10 o’clock, and the first patrol arrived on the scene at 10:06, the authorities said.

Soon, the unity of the cobra has arrived, in charge of such attacks and the hostage crisis, along with other special squads.

The situation was placed under control in 17 minutes.

More than 300 police officers were engaged.

Who are the victims?

Nine students, six girls and three boys, aged 14 to 17 were killed in the attack, police said.

A few hours later, the teacher passed away from the hospital injuries

All are citizens of Austria except for one victim, citizen of Poland.

Authorities have not yet published the names of the victims.

One woman, who said her name was Torres, she said about BBC 11. June that she knew one of the killed boys.

« I know that family for a long time, and their son, and I knew he was going to that school.

« I called them right away if everything was fine. Then at midnight, they told me that the boy was among the killed, » she said.

« What happened terrible. The whole Austria is in mourning, » she said.

The remaining 11 wounded are not in life hazards, the police says.

The wounds have between 15 and 26 years old.

The eight of them is from Austria, two from Romania and one from Iran.

What do we know about the attacker?

Twenty-friendly old man, whose name has not been published yet, he seemed alone, police said.

He lived with a single mother, also Austrian, in the Graz-Umgebung neighborhood.

His father, who originated from Armenia, did not live with them from the divorce.

He is a former student of the High School of Drajervicengas, which he did not end, said the Minister of the Interior at the press conference for several hours after mass murder.

The police found a « farewell letter », « farewell video » and defective bomb made of pipes, police said on Wednesday.

Evidence of the bombing plan was also found, from whom the attacker gave up the attacker.

The attacker had a permit for weapons, a gun and shotgun, whose attack was executed.

Police continue to investigate possible motives.

What are the Austrian weapons laws?

Austria has one of the most advanced civilians in Europe, with estimated 30 pieces of firearms per 100 people, according to the information of an independent research project Small Arms Survey.

The machine guns are prohibited, while revolvers, guns and semi-automatic weapons are only allowed with official approval.

The rifles and shotguns can possess with a valid hunting license, or for members of traditional shooting clubs.

But shootings in Austrian schools are rare.

Several incidents have been recorded with a far smaller number of victims:

• In 2018, a nineteenth-year-old in Mistelbach, north of Vienna, shot another young man.
• 2012. In St. Peltena, the student killed his father.
• In 1997, in Ceberna, the fifteen-year-old killed the teacher and severely wounded another.
• And in 1993. year, the thirteen-year-old in Hauslazen was seriously injured by the school principal, and then committed suicide.

Mass shootings in schools, in which four and more people are suffering, not counting the killer, they are very rare outside America.

The attack in Graz is only Eighth Mass Shots in Europe since 2000.

One of the most difficult ones was recorded in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, when it is 3. Maja 2023. year, the primary school student killed eight students and school guardians.

The most violent armed attack in Austria has happened in the heart of Vienna in November 2020.

Four people were killed, and 22 wounded when the convicted jihadist ran through the city center by opening fire.

Police then shot him.

Attack 10. June in Graz happened for almost ten years since three people were killed when a man was crowned in mass in the second largest Austrian city, 20. June 2015

The school was probably not ready for a possible attack, Fani Gazer said, Austrian journalist, for the BBC.

« We don’t live in America, we live in Austria, which looks like a very safe place, » she said.

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