Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker, Vice Chancellor Andreas Babler, Education Minister Christoph Wiederkehr and Interior Minister Gerhard Karner are attending a memorial service in Graz cathedral.

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Austria will observe three days of national mourning following the deadly shooting at a secondary school in Graz. Chancellor Christian Stocker is set to formally announce the decision this ...

Chancellor Christian Stocker signs papers during the swearing-in ceremony of the Federal Government in the presidential office at the Hofburg Palace, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, March 3, 2025.

Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker said a "national tragedy" had befallen Austria, and that no words could express people's grief and pain across the country.

Chancellor Christian Stocker called the shooting a "dark day in the history of our country." "There are no words for the pain and grief that we all, all of Austria, are feeling right now," he said.

“Today is a dark day in the history of our country,” Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker told reporters in Graz, a city of about 300,000 people in southeastern Austria.

Stocker declared a three-day national period of mourning, with a nationwide moment of silence for the victims at 10 a.m. local time on Wednesday, he said. The city of Graz sits in southern Austria ...