Five feared killed in horror school shooting as armed police swarm scene
The BORG Dreierschützengasse school is being evacuated with officers swarming the scene. Austrian special task force Cobra has also been deployed to the horror incident, which unfolded at about 10am local time.
There are fears as many as five people may have been killed and multiple people injured, according to local media, and a police spokesperson believes the shooter may be a pupil at the school.
Students and teachers are believed to be among the victims.
Federal police have been deployed to the scene, according to local reports.
Cobra units - armed special forces part of the Federal Ministry of the Interior - have rushed to a community administered hospital nearby the shooting site.
At keast five people may have died following the school shooting this morning.
Police rushed to the scene at around 10am local time (9am GMT) this morning, in the Dreierschützengasse neighborhood, with a local spokesperson telling national broadcaster ORF early on that one person may have died. Fritz Grundnig said one person "possibly also dead" following the shooting.
Police have confirmed in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that Cobra units were deployed to the site of the suspected shooting this morning.
+++Aktuell läuft in der Dreierschützengasse in #Graz ein Polizeieinsatz. Bitte an die Anweisungen der Polizeikräfte halten. +++ #graz1006
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