A lone attacker has shot dead 10 people at a school in the Austrian city of Graz. Officials say the suspect, who was 21 and had two guns, killed himself in the bathroom. Three days of national mourning have been announced. Follow the latest here.
Tuesday 10 June 2025 23:38, UK
Well-wishers have been lighting candles and placing them in the main square in Graz city centre as a tribute to the shooting victims.
Moving images show people quietly reflecting as the city comes to terms with the deadly attack.
Sky correspondent Rachael Venables has arrived in Graz this evening.
She said the "question on everyone's mind" in the city is what the gunman's motive was for the attack.
However, she said there have still been "no updates from the authorities".
Austria's interior minister Gerhard Karner said earlier that the gunman was a former pupil who didn't finish school.
Rachael continued: "We know that he is understood to have been a 21-year-old who was living locally.
"But no more information about any form of motive, whatever it might have been, that could lead somebody to such hideous acts".
As Rachael spoke, people were laying lit candles outside the school as a tribute to the victims.
She continued: "Many people in this local area, they tell me they heard the gunshots, they thought at first it was innocent noise - and then after the beats came further and faster and louder, they realised something was dreadfully wrong.
"This really is a community in mourning."
BORG Dreiersch眉tzengasse, the high school in the northwest of Graz where the shooting took place, has posted a message on Instagram following the tragedy.
The message is written in German, the official language of Austria, and translates to in English as: "It was a really terrible day that deeply impacted and affected us all.
"Let us continue to stand together as a school community and support one another.
"Your teachers and your principal."
French education minister Elisabeth Borne has said that one of those who died in the school shooting was a "young fellow citizen" of France.
She wrote on X: "We are deeply moved to learn that a young fellow citizen is one of the victims of the deadly shooting at a school in Graz, Austria.
"I express my solidarity with the victims, the injured, their loved ones, and the entire Austrian educational community."
Austria has one of the most heavily-armed civilian populations in Europe, with an estimated 30 firearms per 100 people, according to the Small Arms Survey, an independent research project.
However, school shootings are reported to be rare.
Julia Ebner, an extremism expert at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue thinktank, said the shooting in Graz appears to be the worst school shooting in Austria's post-war history.
Four people were killed and 22 injured when a convicted jihadist went on a shooting spree in the centre of Vienna in 2020.
In November 1997, a 36-year-old mechanic shot dead six people in the town of Mauterndorf before killing himself.
Bishop Johannes Freitag has been leading a memorial service at the cathedral in Graz following the school shooting earlier today.
Photos show people looking solemn during the service as they await updates on one person who remains in a life-threatening condition after the attack.
In our previous post we reported on how an Austrian football club had appealed for blood donors following the tragedy in Graz.
Photos have now emerged of people giving blood at a hotel in the southern Austrian city as the country reels from the school shooting.
Victims have been treated at the Universitatsklinkum Graz Hospital - where an adult who was in a life-threatening condition became the tenth victim to be confirmed dead this evening.
Another adult remains in a critical condition at the hospital (see 17:25 post).
The Austrian football club SK Sturm Graz are appealing for blood donors in the wake of the school shooting today.
In a message on X, the team said people can go to the Messendorf training centre to donate blood.
Gunshots and screaming can be heard after the gunman entered the school in Graz today, footage shared online shows.
As we have been reporting today, police were called to the scene at around 10am after shots were heard at the school.
Police and ambulances were on the scene in minutes.
The motive for the attack is not yet known.
One more person has died after the shooting, according to Universitatsklinkum Graz Hospital, where victims were being treated.
The hospital said the person who died was an adult, and that another adult was in a life-threatening condition.
This takes the total number of victims killed in the shooting to 10, with the killer also dead.
