Two shocking attacks within two hours of each other, in France and Austria, have left parents and governments reeling and at a loss how to protect school students from random, deadly violence. At about 08:15 on Tuesday,

Austria will observe a national day of mourning and a minute’s silence on Wednesday after a former student shot dead 10 people at a high school in an unprecedented case of gun violence that stunned the Alpine country.

An attack on a school in southeastern Austria reportedly by a former pupil has left several people dead, police said Tuesday, in a rare case of deadly gun violence in a European school.

The 21-year-old man who carried out Austria's worst school shooting was an introverted fan of online shooting games.

Police in Austria were hunting for clues on Wednesday after a gunman opened fire at his former high school a day earlier, killing nine students and a teacher in a deadly spree that stunned the country.

At least 10 were dead after a student opened fire at a school in Graz, then shot himself. Victims include students and teachers; special forces rushed to the scene. Austria mourns as questions mount over gun access and campus safety?

The two people who sustained minor injuries in a knife attack in Munich did not require treatment in hospital, a police spokesman in the Bavarian capital said on Sunday. A man and a woman were attacked by a 30-year-old woman on Saturday at the Theresienwiese - the open grounds where the annual Oktoberfest is held,