School shooting in Austrian city of Graz
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Nine people have been killed and many injured in a school shooting in the southern Austrian city of Graz. The shooter also killed himself, and has been identified as a former pupil.
Also, Donald Trump sends in the Marines as the president's crackdown on undocumented migrants clashes with California's policy as a Sanctuary State, Syria's jailers under President Assad speak to the BBC anonymously about what they did and those who suffered, plus good news for biodiversity and precious coral reefs in the Zanzibar archipelago, as two new Marine Protected Areas are announced.
(IMAGE: General view of the Dreierschutzengasse high school following a shooting in Graz, Austria, 10 June 2025 / CREDIT: Antonio Bat /EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.0 | Coming to you live from London, I'm Sean Lay. |
| 0:09.9 | We begin this hour in Austria, where at least nine people are dead |
| 0:13.6 | after a shooting at a school in the southern Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday morning. |
| 0:19.1 | The attacker is also believed to have died. |
| 0:21.7 | Christoph Budin is a senior editor at the Kronen-Zaitung newspaper in Vienna and joins us live now |
| 0:27.5 | from the Austrian capital. Christopher, thank you for being with us on NewsHour. What can you tell us |
| 0:32.3 | about what unfolded this morning? Yes. What we know right now is that is by far the worst rampage in a school |
| 0:41.7 | in Austria we ever had in the last decades. It's a former student, 22, live around Grads, |
| 0:53.7 | has was going around 10 a.m. in the school, in his former class and in a second |
| 1:01.8 | class, shooting with a shotgun and with a gun, with two weapons, and many, many shots, and then execute himself in a in a toilet |
| 1:17.8 | room. |
| 1:18.4 | That's what we know right now. |
| 1:20.3 | And do we know what has happened in terms of the other casualties? |
| 1:25.3 | Are we talking about students? |
| 1:26.5 | Are we talking about teachers? |
| 1:27.7 | Other people who worked at the school? |
| 1:29.4 | Is any of that clear yet? |
| 1:31.4 | It's not clear almost. |
| 1:35.4 | What we know is the shooting was taking place in two classes |
| 1:41.1 | and then affected also students and teachers because we have now a matura. |
| 1:48.0 | It's a, it's a time of the diploma now. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 22 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.