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This article is a list of mass shootings in Austria. Mass shootings are firearm-related violence with at least four casualties.
The data includes casualties of perpetrators, including self-inflicted gunshot or shooting of a perpetrator by police. The treatment of perpetrator casualties is at variance to some but not all definitions of a mass shooting used in the United States. The inclusion of injured victims in the data is also at variance with some of the US definitions that only include dead victims. However, the above treatment is consistent with that used in other Wikipedia lists of mass shootings by country.
Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
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10 June 2025 | Graz, Styria | 11 [n 1] | >30 (11 from gunfire) | >41 | Graz school shooting: A former student of Dreierschützengasse secondary school entered the school and he opened fire in at least two classrooms. The man shot and killed 10 people and injured at least 11 others. The gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The shooting is the deadliest rampage killing in modern Austrian history. [1] [2] [3] |
7 October 2023 | Floridsdorf, Vienna | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four people were shot and injured in a gang related shooting. [4] |
2 November 2020 | Innere Stadt, Vienna | 5 [n 1] | 23 | 28 | 2020 Vienna attack: An ISIL sympathiser opened fire on civilians in the city centre of Vienna. The man shot and killed 4 people and injured 23 others, seven critically, including a police officer. [5] [6] [7] |
6 October 2019 | Kitzbühel, Tyrol | 5 | 0 | 5 | A man shot and kills 5 members of his ex-partners family, including his former girlfriend. [8] [9] |
28 or 29 November 2016 | Böheimkirchen, Lower Austria | 6 [n 1] | 0 | 6 | A woman shot and killed 5 members of her family before turning the gun on herself. [10] [11] |
22 May 2016 | Nenzing, Vorarlberg | 3 [n 1] | 11 | 14 | 2016 Nenzing shooting: A man shot and killed 2 people and injured 11 others following a heated argument between the perpetrator and his girlfriend. He would died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. [12] [13] |
16–17 September 2013 | Annaberg and Melk, Lower Austria | 5 [n 1] | 1 | 6 | 2013 Annaberg shooting: A suspected poacher killed several police officers and a Red Cross paramedic in Annaberg before he kidnapped another officer while fleeing to his house in Melk before killing the police hostage. He would later died from self-immolation wounds. [14] [15] |
Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
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20 November 1997 | Mauterndorf, Salzburg | 7 [n 2] | 0 | 7 | 1997 Mauterndorf shooting : A man armed with two handguns killed six people before killing himself. [16] |
10 March 1995 | Urfahr, Upper Austria | 6 [n 2] | 2 | 8 | 1995 Urfahr shooting : A man armed with a handgun opened fire in a courtroom killing five and wounding two. He escaped the scene and fatally shot himself. [17] |
8/9 September 1990 | Floridsdorf, Vienna | 6 [n 2] | 4 | 10 | A man armed with a handgun killed five people and wounded four others before killing himself. [18] |
29 August 1981 | Innere Stadt, Vienna | 2 | 18 | 20 | 1981 Vienna synagogue attack: Two terrorists of the Abu Nidal Organization kill two people and wounded 18 others attending a Bar mitzvah service at the Stadttempel in Vienna in a shooting and grenade attack. [19] [20] |
22 June 1973 | Landstraße, Vienna | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1973 Rennweg Barracks shooting: A man opened fire on officers during a questioning, wounding four. [21] |
29 March 1948 | Josefsberg, Lower Austria | 2 | 14+ | 16+ | At least one drunken Soviet soldier opened fire at a restaurant, killing two people and wounding several others. [22] |
6 October 1902 | Droyssig, Austria-Hungary | 4 [n 2] | 3 | 7 | A 40-year-old teacher shot and killed three students and wounded three others before being lynched by villagers. [23] |
At least one gunman killed four people and seriously injured several others before being shot dead by police in an attack in the Austrian capital, Vienna, that officials called Islamist terrorism.
A terror attack in Vienna that left four people dead was carried out by at least one Islamic terrorist, Austria's Interior Ministry said Tuesday.