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Massacre inside school in Austria, Sky News: It is the most armed country in Europe

Massacre inside school in Austria, Sky News: It is the most armed country in

A young man has shot dead 10 people at a school in the Austrian city of Graz. Officials say the suspect, who was 21 years old and had two guns, killed himself in the bathroom.

Austria has experienced shocking events before, as one of the most heavily armed civilian populations in Europe, with around 30 firearms per 100 people, according to the Small Arms Survey, an independent research project, writes Skynews

Julia Ebner, an expert on extremism at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, said the Graz shooting appears to be the deadliest school shooting in Austria's post-war history.

Four people were killed and 22 injured when a convicted jihadist carried out a series of shootings in central Vienna in 2020.

In November 1997, a 36-year-old mechanic shot and killed six people in the town of Mauterndorf before killing himself.

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