Graz Mayor Elke Kahr has now said that 10 people have been killed in this morning’s shooting. School students are among the dead and a number of people have been reported wounded.
Police say the suspected gunman probably took his own life after the attack on the Dreierschützengasse high school at about 10:00 (09:00 BST).
It is not clear at the moment if the gunman was a student or a former student at the school.
To everything there is a season, including violence. School shootings are always out of season, theoretically. The exception that proves the rule, perhaps.