Heavily armed police, a helicopter and paramedics descended on the Dreierschuetzengasse high school in Graz after the 21-year-old lone shooter struck, police said.
Seven of the victims were female and three male, authorities said without specifying their ages.
The suspect acted alone and took his own life in the school toilet, police said, adding his motive remained unknown.
According to police, the alleged perpetrator was an Austrian from the Graz region, who used two legally-owned weapons.
‘Unheard of’
A supermarket and a bank in the vicinity closed for the day.
“In my home country it happens more often as we know but that it happens here is unheard of,“ she said, declining to give her name.
‘Deeply shocked’
Condolences poured in from across Europe.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said “our thoughts are with our Austrian friends and neighbours” following the “horrific” school shooting.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said “the news from Graz touches my heart” while Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed her sympathies to the families of the victims following the “tragic news”.
While still less common than in the United States, Europe in recent years has been shaken by attacks at schools and universities that were not connected to terrorism.
In January, an 18-year-old man fatally stabbed a high school student and a teacher at a school in northeastern Slovakia.
In December 2023, an attack by a student at a university in central Prague left 14 people dead and 25 injured.
A few months earlier, a 13-year-old gunned down nine fellow classmates and a security guard at an elementary school in Belgrade.
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