10 DIE IN SCHOOL HORROR

Attacker kills himself after classroom rampage. Nation's 'dark day' as teens ran for their lives

- JEREMY ARMSTRONG

A "BULLIED" former student went on a rampage killing 10 pupils and staff at his old school yesterday, in the worst massacre in Austria's recent history.

Pupils pretended to be dead in an attempt to escape the bloodbath as he blasted classrooms in a sweeping motion with rounds from a shotgun and Glock pistol.

The 10 victims include six girls, three boys and one woman, according to officials. They added 28 people had been injured, 12 of them seriously, with two said to be critical. One was reportedly shot in the head.

Shocking footage shows pupils fleeing the 21-year-old male shooter, who ended up turning the gun on himself in the toilets as heavily armed police stormed the building.

Gunshots were heard being fired in quick succession as pupils fled.

The gunman was reportedly bullied before he failed his final exams and dropped out of Dreierschützengasse secondary school in Graz, in the south-east of the country.

Around 300 police officers, including a specialist Cobra anti-terror unit, raced to the scene after locals reported gunfire shortly after 10am.

The school of 400 pupils was evacuated within 17 minutes before the dead and injured were brought out by paramedics.

Witnesses told of a line of stretchers, with some of the bodies of victims covered in blankets.

One dad told of the horror faced by his two sons at the school. He said: "One had to lie on the floor and play dead when the gunman opened fire so he did not get shot."