The police in Austria are responding to gunshots fired in a secondary school in the southern city of Graz.
Officers are still trying to clarify the situation on the ground and coordinate a response that includes specially-trained COBRA units, Austria’s version of a SWAT team. According to the Austrian public broadcaster ORF, officials have confirmed several dead, including the shooter.
Graz is Austria’s second-largest city and a vibrant, wealthy university town. It last experienced a major mass attack a decade ago, when a man killed three people and injured three dozen more in a vehicular rampage through the city’s streets that ended with him attacking bystanders with a knife. Police said he had a history of domestic violence and that his wife had recently left him.
On Tuesday, police confirmed that their response was focused on a building at a major high school in the north of the city, close to the train station.
Christopher F. Schuetze is a reporter for The Times based in Berlin, covering politics, society and culture in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Jim Tankersley is the Berlin bureau chief for The Times, leading coverage of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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