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Austrian school gunman who killed nine was 21-year-old former pupil

# Ten people have died following a shooting at a secondary school in the Austrian city of Graz. The Interior Minister confirmed nine people were killed in the attack and 12 more were injured. Six of the victims were female and three were male. The suspected perpetrator was a 21-year-old Austrian man from the Graz area. Local police said he was a former student at the school and died by suicide in a bathroom. Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker called the shooting a national tragedy and announced three days of mourning across the country.