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| Austria school shooting: Bomb attack plans found at suspect's home | Austria school shooting: Bomb attack plans found at suspect's home |
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| Abandoned plans for a bomb attack have been found at the home of the suspected gunman in a school shooting in Austria, police have said. | Abandoned plans for a bomb attack have been found at the home of the suspected gunman in a school shooting in Austria, police have said. |
| Police in the south-eastern city of Graz also found a non-functional pipe bomb, and a "farewell" letter and video during the search, they said in a statement. | |
| Ten people were killed in the attack at the secondary school on Tuesday - the deadliest in the country's recent history. | Ten people were killed in the attack at the secondary school on Tuesday - the deadliest in the country's recent history. |
| The suspect, a 21-year-old former student at the school, took his own life in a school bathroom shortly after the attack, according to police. Authorities have not yet drawn any conclusions on the gunman's possible motive. | The suspect, a 21-year-old former student at the school, took his own life in a school bathroom shortly after the attack, according to police. Authorities have not yet drawn any conclusions on the gunman's possible motive. |
| The incident, which left a further 11 people injured, took place at Dreierschützengasse secondary school in the north-west of the city. | The incident, which left a further 11 people injured, took place at Dreierschützengasse secondary school in the north-west of the city. |
| Six females and three males were killed in the attack, and a seventh female later died in hospital. | Six females and three males were killed in the attack, and a seventh female later died in hospital. |
| The victims were a teacher and nine students aged between 14 and 17, police said. All were Austrian citizens, except for one who was Polish. | |
| Police said the suspect was born in Styria - the region in which Graz sits - and lived with his single mother, who was also Austrian, in the Graz-Umgebung District. | |
| They added that his father, of Armenian origin, had not lived with them since his parents' separation. | |
| Current information suggests the shooter legally owned the two guns used in the attack - a pistol and a shotgun - and had a firearms licence, police said. They added that the guns would be forensically examined. | |
| The gunman, who has not yet been named, did not graduate from the school, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner told a news conference earlier. He was not known to the authorities prior to the attack, police also confirmed. | |
| Analysis of evidence and data storage devices will continue over the coming weeks and hundreds of people will be interviewed, they said. | |
| The incident would be reconstructed to shed light on how events unfolded, police added. | |
| They said police first arrived at the school six minutes after the first emergency call was made at 10:00 on Tuesday, with a rapid response unit and specialist Cobra tactical unit - which handles attacks and hostage situations - arriving by 10:17. | |
| Styrian police said this quick reaction "appears to have saved several lives". | |
| Police have increased security measures around schools in the city since. | |
| Watch: Tearful Graz residents light candles at Austrian school shooting vigil | |
| Three days of mourning were declared in Austria following the attack, and a nationwide minute's silence was held on Wednesday at 10:00 local time (08:00 GMT) in memory of the victims. The Austrian flag has been lowered to half-mast on all public buildings. | Three days of mourning were declared in Austria following the attack, and a nationwide minute's silence was held on Wednesday at 10:00 local time (08:00 GMT) in memory of the victims. The Austrian flag has been lowered to half-mast on all public buildings. |
| After the minute's silence in Graz's main square, one woman, Tores, told BBC News that she knew one of the boys who had died. He was 17. | After the minute's silence in Graz's main square, one woman, Tores, told BBC News that she knew one of the boys who had died. He was 17. |
| "I've know this family for a long time, including the son of the family, and knew that he attended that school. I rang immediately, to ask if everything is OK. Then they let me know at midday, that the boy was one of those slaughtered," she said. | "I've know this family for a long time, including the son of the family, and knew that he attended that school. I rang immediately, to ask if everything is OK. Then they let me know at midday, that the boy was one of those slaughtered," she said. |
| The incident is the deadliest mass shooting in Austria's recent history. | |
| In 2020, jihadist gunman Kujtim Fejzulai shot four people dead and wounded 23 others on a rampage through Vienna's busy nightlife district. | |
| Meanwhile, in 2016, a gunman opened fire at a concert in the town of Nenzing, killing two people before shooting himself dead. Eleven other people were injured in the attack. | |