Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
Coming to you live from London, I'm Sean Lay.
We begin this hour in Austria,
where at least nine people are dead after a shooting at a school in the southern Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday morning.
The attacker is also believed to have died.
Christoph Budin is a senior editor at the Kronenzeitung newspaper in Vienna and joins us live now from the Austrian capital.
Christoph, thank you for being with us.
On NewsHour, what can you tell us about what unfolded this morning?
Yes,
what we know right now is that this is by far the worst rampage in a school in Austria we ever had in the last decades.
It's a former student, 22, live around Graz.
He was going around 10 a.m. in the school, in his former class and in a second class,
shooting with a shotgun and with a gun, with two weapons.
many, many shots and then execute himself in a toilet room.
That's what we know right now.
And do we know what has happened in terms of the other casualties?
Are we talking about students?
Are we talking about teachers, other people who worked at the school?
Is any of that clear yet?
It's not clear almost.