Vienna, June 11 -- A three-day national mourning began on Tuesday in Austria after the country was "stricken at the heart" by a mass school shooting earlier in the morning.
At least 11 people were killed, including the shooter, in the school shooting that happened in Austria's second-largest city of Graz, according to local media reports. Another 11 were hospitalised with serious injuries.
The school shooting is considered one of the most serious shootings in the history of Austria, the country's largest newspaper, Kronen Zeitung, said.
Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen on Tuesday announced a three-day national mourning and the lowering of the country's flag to half-staff, saying that "what happened today in a school in Graz...