VIENNA: A former pupil killed nine people and then himself at a secondary school in the southern Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday (Jun 10) in the worst school shooting in the country's modern history.

Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said six of the victims were female and three were male, and that 12 people were also injured. He gave no further details to identify the victims, but Austrian media said most were pupils.

The motive for an attack that shocked the nation was not yet known. But police said they assumed the 21-year-old Austrian shooter, who was found dead in a bathroom, was operating alone when he entered the school with two guns and opened fire.

"The rampage at a school in Graz is a national tragedy that has deeply shaken our entire country," Austrian Chancellor Christian St

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