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A not functional homemade pump and goodbye to parents. 21 -year -old threatened over two classrooms to then kill himself in the bathroom.
One Defective Homemade Pump was found in the house of 21 -year -old Austrian who killed eleven people On Tuesday at his former school in Graz, police said today on social network X.
The bomb was seized during a search for the shooter’s house, police said, at a time when the investigation is proceeded to determine the reasons for the young man who committed suicide at the bathroom after the crime.
The author of the attack is a former 21-year-old student of the secondary school in question that did not complete the studies and had two weapons, A hunter and a pistol, which it apparently had legally.
The advance that, at the young man’s house, was still a farewell letter. “An analog and digital farewell letter was found,” Franz Ruf, Director of Public Security of the Austrian Interior Ministry, told Orf Public Television. “You say goodbye to your parents. But no reason can be inferred from the farewell letter, and that’s a question for more investigations.”
According to the Austrian police, the attack caused death to 10 people, including its author, who committed suicide, and injured 12, some gravity.
Austrian chancellor Christian Stocker decreed three days of national mourning following the tragedy, speaking in a “black day” to the country’s history.
The Kronen Zeitung newspaper indicated that the shooting began around 10:00 pm (09:00 in Lisbon) and that the alleged aggressor fired in two classrooms different. Followed, committed suicidehaving been found lifeless in the bathroom.
Graz, the second largest city in Austria, is located in the southeast of the country and has about 300,000 inhabitants.
