At least 8 killed in school shooting in Austria's second biggest city, local media say

At slightest 8 radical were killed and respective others injured successful a schoolhouse shooting Tuesday successful the Austrian city of Graz, section media reported.

Austria's interior ministry confirming that respective radical had been killed astatine a Graz school. Police told the Associated Press that an cognition was underway astatine the BORG Dreierschützengasse school, a secondary schoolhouse located successful the northwest of the city.

Police spokesperson Fritz Grundnig told Austrian public broadcaster ORF that constabulary had evacuated the gathering aft gunshots were heard.

Those injured included students and teachers, who were taken to the adjacent Helmut List Hall events abstraction for exigency care, according to Austrian paper Kronen Zeitung.

It was not instantly wide whether the fishy was among those injured.

The Austrian interior ministry did not instantly respond to NBC News' petition for comment.

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