Shooting in the Austrian city of Graz, this Tuesday, made several injuries, including students and teachers, and at least 9 dead. Another knife attack at a school in France made a death. Both suspects are teenagers.
A shooting that took place this Tuesday was a high school in the Austrian city of Graz and did at least 9 dead and several serious injuries It occurred around 10am.
According to the Austrian newspaper, four girls from a 5th grade class are among the victims. One student was killed outside the building, and three 8th grade boys will also be among the victims.
O suspect, that the police believe it is a student, committed suicide On site, according to reports heard by.
GRAZ police spokesman Sabri Yorgun said special forces They were among the teams sent to secondary school after a call received at 10am, and that the authorities were working to obtain an overview of the succeed.
Police surrounded the buildings, and asked the population to avoid the area around the school on Dreierschuetzengass Street. According to, there are several police officers on site, including special units. This channel also speaks of “several” dead, without advancing a concrete number.
Graz is a city with about 300,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the province of Styria in southern Austria.
Teaching Assistant Dead per student in France
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks of a “wave of meaningless violence”. In a French school, a teaching assistant was stabbed to death by a 15 -year -old student, in the city of Nogent.
The secondary education student was arrested after having Attacked the 31 -year -old assistant with a knife during a backpack check. The pedagogical assistant was “simply doing her work, receiving students at the entrance of the school,” she told Elisabeth Allain-Morno, secretary general of the Se-Unsa Teachers Union, who shares the “immense pain” before the episode.
Student’s backpack searches began to be made in France in March due to episodes of this type. After a similar attack on Nantes in April, Prime Minister François Bayrou appealed to “more intensive controls around and within schools.”