Vienna Terrorist Attack Leaves at Least 2 Dead and 15 Wounded

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Vienna Terrorist Attack Leaves at Least 2 Dead and 15 Wounded

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Interior Minister Karl Nehammer described the attackers as “heavily armed and dangerous,” but no group immediately made a claim of responsibility for the violence.

The police killed at least one of the gunmen, officials said, but at least one other remained at large.

The gunmen opened fire at perhaps half a dozen locations, all in the same area, the authorities said.

At least 15 people were being treated for injuries at hospitals, a spokesman for the hospital association said. Michael Ludwig, Vienna’s mayor, said at least seven people were seriously hurt. At least one of those shot was a police officer.

The attack, which began around 8 p.m., took place in Vienna’s Inner City district, a nightlife hub packed with restaurants and bars a short walk from the Danube.

Video broadcast on local media Monday showed an assailant wearing a black hood running up to a man, shooting him at close range with a long gun, running away and then returning seconds later to shoot him twice more with a handgun. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Harald Sörös, described the victim as a passer-by.
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Gunmen with automatic weapons opened fire in central Vienna on Monday evening, killing at least one person and injuring dozens, as people savored the final hours of freedom before Austria entered a nationwide Covid-19 lockdown at midnight.

Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said several suspects had assault rifles. "We are still in battle against the would-be terrorists," he said.

Gunfire erupted at about 8 p.m. in the busy shopping and dining district near Vienna's main synagogue, Seitenstettengasse Temple, which was closed.

Vienna mayor Michael Ludwig said the gunmen appeared to shoot at random as people dined and drank outside due to the warm weather and virus concerns.

At least one person died in the shooting and 15 were injured, including a police officer, according to Austrian authorities. One gunman was shot dead by police.

All synagogues, Jewish schools, the institutions of the IKG (Jewish Community of Vienna), and kosher restaurants and supermarkets in Vienna will be closed on Tuesday as a precaution, Deutsch said.
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Interior Minister Karl Nehammer called the incident an apparent terror attack, Reuters reported. "We have brought several special forces units together that are now searching for the presumed terrorists. I am therefore not limiting it to an area of Vienna because these are mobile perpetrators," Nehammer told broadcaster ORF.

The city's mayor, Michael Ludwig, said 15 people were hospitalized, with seven suffering serious injuries, the Associated Press reported.

"We heard noises that sounded like firecrackers. We heard about 20 to 30 and we thought that to be actually gunfire," one witness told BBC News. "We saw the ambulances... lining up. There were victims. Sadly, we also saw a body lying down the street next to us."

Rabbi Schlomo Hofmeister said he saw one person firing shots in the street below his window. "They were shooting at least 100 rounds just outside our building," Hofmeister told the AP.
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At least four people were killed and more than a dozen seriously injured in Austria's capital Vienna late Monday in an assault that government officials said was connected to a radicalized person who "sympathized" with the Islamic State terror group.

Police shot and killed one suspected attacker – his death brought the total death toll to five – who was carrying an assault rifle and a fake suicide vest. Authorities were still trying to determine Tuesday whether further attackers may be on the run.

Austria’s Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said it was not clear if gunman acted alone or had help from accomplices. Nehammer described the killed assailant, who injured a police officer, as an "Islamist terrorist" and just before midnight Austria's leader said in a televised address that the country had become "the victim of a disgusting terror attack."
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The 20-year-old, named as Kujtim Fejzulai, was shot dead by police and was armed with a shortened Kalashnikov, a handgun, a machete and a fake explosive belt.

According to Interior Minster Karl Nehammer, Fejzulai had dual Macedonian-Austrian nationality and had already been convicted last year of attempting to travel to Syria and trying to join IS.

After that conviction, Fejzulai, whose name suggests he is of ethnic Albanian origin, was sentenced to 22 months in prison, but was released early on parole in December.

"The perpetrator managed to fool the justice system's de-radicalisation programme, to fool the people in it, and to get an early release through this," Nehammer said, suggesting that the attacker had made special efforts to deceive probation officers.

Fejzulai had been paroled in December 2019 after serving two thirds of his sentence, but also put on three years' probation.

In Fejzulai's case, he was required to report regularly to probation counsellors and the de-radicalisation programme DERAD, "which, according to our current knowledge, he did," Zadic said.
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