Austria, mass shooting
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Austria has declared three days of national mourning following what appears to be the deadliest attack in its post-World War II history.
A 10th victim has died after a 21-year-old former student opened fire in a secondary school in Graz before killing himself.
A TEEN girl has been named as the first victim of the tragic mass shooting in Austria that left 11 people dead. Lea Bajrami, 15, was killed at the BORG Dreierschützengasse high school in what
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When a 21-year-old former student opened fire inside his school in Austria’s second-biggest city earlier this week, killing 10 people, it didn’t take long for the Alpine country’s press council to call on journalists to show restraint when reporting about the victims and their families.
Austria ranks among the highest in Europe for civilian gun ownership, with approximately 30 guns per 100 residents, according to the 2017 Small Arms Survey, a Geneva research group. While countries such as Cyprus, Finland, and Iceland report slightly higher rates, Austria remains an outlier in the continent.
The deadliest school shooting in the nation’s recent history has prompted some gun enthusiasts to worry about the prospect of stricter ownership laws.
Students were sitting in their classrooms at a secondary school in Graz when a 21-year-old Austrian man shot dead nine people, before killing himself. Twelve people were injured in Tuesday morning's violence,
The suspect in the violent Austria school shooting had failed to pass the test for military service and was a fan of online first-person shooting games