Closing summary
… and that’s all from me, Jakub Krupa, for today.
Here’s your summary of the day:
Nine people have been killed in a school shooting in Graz by a 21-year-old former student, who then killed himself, it was confirmed (15:32).
The suspected shooter was an Austrian citizen who lived in Graz, and likely owned weapons legally, with no previous criminal record (15:36). He attended the school in the past, but did not graduate.
12 further people are injured, “some seriously,” Austria’s interior minister Gerhard Karner said (15:32), confirming earlier reports from emergency services (14:16).
Austria will hold a nationwide minute of silence on Wednesday, 10am, and observe three days of national mourning, the country’s chancellor Christian Stocker said, who called the attack “a national tragedy” (15:24).
I will be back tomorrow morning with more updates from Graz, and live coverage of the vote of confidence in Donald Tusk’s government in Poland, and all other stories from across Europe.
But for now, that’s all from me, Jakub Krupa, for today.
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