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Former student kills 10 in Austrian high school shooting

A woman pays her respects at a makeshift memorial site after several people died in a school shooting, on June 10, 2025 in Graz, southeastern Austria. [AFP]

Austria will observe a national day of mourning and a minute's silence on Wednesday after a former student shot dead 10 people at a high school in an unprecedented case of gun violence that stunned the Alpine country.

The 21-year-old shooter acted alone and took his own life in the toilet at Dreierschuetzengasse high school in Graz, police said.

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