A school shooting in the Austrian city of Graz has left at least 10 people dead, marking the deadlist incidet of its kind in the country in recent decades. The tragedy has shocked Austria, where firearm violence in educational settings is rare.

According to public broadcaster ORF, there have been four recorded incidents involving fireamrs at Austrian schools since 1993. None, however, resulted in more than one fatality — excluding the perpetrator — until now.

Similar incidents on school or college campuses have occured elsewhere in Europe over the last few decades — several of which led to policy shifts.

When a shooter killed 16 children, aged between five and six, in the Scottish town of Dunblane in 1996, the UK government swiftly banned private ownership of handguns.

German lawmakers raised the age limit for gun ownership and mandated random spot checks on gun owners to ensure they were storing guns according to regulations after mass shootings in the 2000s.

In 2002, expelled19-year-old student Robert Steinhäuser opened fire at a school in Erfurt, killing 12 teachers, two students, a secretary and a policewoman, before killing himself. Then seven years later in the town of Winnenden, in southern Germany, a 17-year-old shot and killed 15 students, teachers and passers-by inside and near his former school. He was later killed in a shoot-out with police.

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