Austria plans to tighten its gun control rules after a 21-year-old killed 10 people then killed himself in the country's worst school shooting by far, the conservative-led government said on Wednesday.

Austria’s chancellor says his country will toughen its gun laws after a 21-year-old former student killed nine students and a teacher at his school last week in what’s considered the Alpine country’s deadliest post-war attack.

The Austrian government has outlined plans to tighten gun laws in response to the deadly school shooting in the country's second-largest city of Graz. Chancellor Christian Stocker said on Wednesday the minimum age for the purchase certain types of firearms will be raised from 21 to 25 years,