GRAZ (Austria), June 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least five people were killed and several others were injured in a school shooting in the southern Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, according to the domestic press.
A police operation is under way.
Several others have been injured, including students and teachers, state broadcaster ORF reported citing local press.
The suspected perpetrator, considered to be a student at this stage, has killed himself, reports claim.
A police operation was under way at the BORG school on Dreierschuetzengasse street. The authorities, who have asked the public to avoid the area, have refused to make further comments.
Graz Police spokesperson Sabri Yorgun said special Cobra units were among those sent to the high school after a call was received at 10 am, and that authorities were working to gain an overview of what had happened.
Other emergency services and a helicopter were dispatched to the scene.
The shooting took place close to the tenth anniversary of an attack in the city on June 20, 2015, in which three people were killed.
Graz is a city of some 300,000 and is the capital of the southern Austrian province of Styria. — NNN-AGENCIES
