Austrian police find bomb plans at shooting suspect’s home as nation mourns

Stunned federation observes minute’s silence, mourners enactment cardinal quadrate successful Graz wherever 10 radical were changeable dormant astatine section school.

Austrian constabulary investigating a school wide shooting successful the metropolis of Graz this week said they had recovered discarded plans for a weaponry onslaught astatine the suspect’s home, arsenic the grief-stricken state embarked connected 3 days of nationalist mourning.

Investigators said connected Wednesday that they had discovered abandoned plans for a bombing, a non-functional tube weaponry and a farewell missive and video during a hunt of the location of the dormant suspect, who changeable dormant 10 people during the erstwhile day’s rampage astatine the city’s BORG Dreierschützengasse precocious school, earlier pulling the trigger connected himself successful a schoolhouse toilet.

Police said the 21-year-old, a erstwhile pupil of the school, had acted alone, his farewell enactment revealing nary motive for the attack. Austrian media reported the suspected gunman had been bullied astatine school, but constabulary person not confirmed that arsenic of yet.

The wide shooting killed 9 students – six girls and 3 boys aged betwixt 14 and 17, 1 of whom had Polish citizenship – arsenic good arsenic a teacher, leaving 11 wounded.

Austria came to a standstill astatine 10am (08:00 GMT) connected Wednesday – the clip of the erstwhile day’s carnage – to commemorate the dead. There volition beryllium 1 minute’s soundlessness connected the archetypal of 3 days of nationalist mourning pursuing what appeared to beryllium the deadliest onslaught successful the country’s post-World War II history.

In Vienna, St Stephen’s Cathedral rang its bells, corporate transport came to a halt and nationalist broadcaster ORF paused each vigor and TV programmes, broadcasting images of candles and a connection to accidental the state was mourning the victims.

In Graz, Austria’s second-biggest city, adjacent to wherever the assailant lived with his mother, hundreds of radical lined the cardinal square, laying candles and flowers successful beforehand of the metropolis hall, adding to a increasing memorial to the victims.

‘Surreal’

The suspected gunman, who has not been formally identified, had not completed his studies astatine the school, according to the authorities.

“It’s surreal, you can’t picture oregon truly recognize it,” said Ennio Resnik, a pupil astatine the school, speaking to reporters extracurricular a centre wherever students were being offered counselling.

Some of the students gathered determination cried, portion others held each other.

Franz Ruf, manager wide of nationalist security, told ORF connected Tuesday that investigations into the motive were moving swiftly. “We don’t privation to speculate astatine this point,” helium said.

Police person said that helium utilized 2 weapons, a shotgun and a pistol, which helium owned legally.

By Wednesday morning, the authorization that runs hospitals successful Graz said that each patients were successful a unchangeable condition.

Nine were inactive successful intensive attraction units, with 1 needing a further cognition connected a facial coiled and a 2nd connected a genu injury, portion different 2 had been moved to regular wards.

Police said nary of their lives were successful information and that the wounded people, among them 2 Romanian nationals and an Iranian citizen, were aged betwixt 15 and 26.