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Ten people were killed at a shootout in the school in the Austrian city of Graz, the police said.
The incident occurred in the Dreiergützengasse Secondary School in the northwest of the city.
According to Interior Minister Gerhard Karner, six women and three men were killed in the attack. The police said that the 21-year-old Sagittarius took life in a school bath shortly afterwards.
According to local media reports, another 28 people are treated for their hospital injuries.
The shooter was an Austrian man and former student of Dreienschützengasse, who did not complete the school, said Karner on Tuesday afternoon of a press conference.
In the same conference, the officials confirmed that the shooter was not known before the police attacked.
Current information indicates that the shooter legally owned the two weapons used in the attack and had a firearm license, the police added.
In Austria, three days of grief were explained, and on Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. local time in memory of the victims will take place on Wednesday at 10:00 a.m.
Flags in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, where President Alexander Van der Bellen has his office, will fly with half mast.
The school in which the attack took place remains, according to Austrian Education Minister Christoph Hedehrehr.
The Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker said on Tuesday that a “dark day in” was [the] History of our country “and explained the shootout as” national tragedy “.
“A school is more than just a place where you can learn – it is a room for trust to feel comfortable and have a future,” he told the conference and added that this safe place was “injured”.
“In these difficult hours it is our strongest point to be human,” he said.
The Austrian news agency APA has reported that seven of the students killed were students.
The attack “our country is thinking exactly,” said Stocker immediately.
“These were young people who had their whole life ahead of them.”
The police said they started an operation at 10:00 a.m. local time (9:00 a.m. BST) after shots could be heard at school.
A specialized Cobra tactical unit that deals with attacks and hostage situations -was used to school, the police said.
The authorities evacuated all students and teachers from the building. The police confirmed that the school had been secured and that the public gave no further danger.
“We saw people on site who cried on the street and spoke to friends who were at the shootout at school who may have lost a friend,” said Fanny Gasser, journalist of the Austrian daily Zeitung.
She told BBC News “Everyone knows someone” at school because Graz – although he is the second largest city in Austria – is “not that big”.
She said the school was probably unprepared for the possibility of an attack. “We don’t live in America, we live in Austria, which seems to be like a very safe space.”
The local mayor Elke Kahr called the incident a “terrible tragedy”.
The Vice President of the European Commission, Kaja Kallas, said she was “deeply shocked” by the news. “Every child should feel safe at school and be able to learn free from fear and violence,” she posted on X.