A defense official said the man, 21, was turned down for military service after failing a psychological test. Investigators are asking how he passed another such test to obtain a gun permit.

Police have revealed chilling details about what they found in the home of a former student, 21, who is suspected of leaving a farewell message for his mom before killing 10 in the school shooting in Graz,

GRAZ, Austria (Reuters) -Austrian police said on Wednesday that a pipe bomb was found at the home of the suspect in a school shooting on Tuesday in the city of Graz, but that it was not functional.

Austria ranks among the highest in Europe for civilian gun ownership, with approximately 30 guns per 100 residents, according to the 2017 Small Arms Survey, a Geneva research group. While countries such as Cyprus, Finland, and Iceland report slightly higher rates, Austria remains an outlier in the continent.

Josef Fritzl, who Austrian police say has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering seven of her children, twice holidayed in Thailand while she remained trapped in a cellar below his house,

Smoke in the cockpit forced a plane carrying 143 passengers and six crew to the eastern French city of Lyon from Budapest to make an emergency landing in Graz, Austria's second city, Austrian police said on Monday.