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Shots were fired at night near Schwedenplatz. There is at least one person seriously injured and at least one perpetrator is said to be dead.
Shots broke out Monday night near Schwedenplatz. The first reports on the Vienna Synagogue can be read on Twitter. It is said that there are several seriously injured.
In “Zeit im Bild”, a police spokesperson confirms that one of the perpetrators is dead.
The Interior Ministry has not confirmed any deaths so far, but the seriously injured police officer has. As a spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry confirmed late Monday, a police officer was seriously injured in a shooting in central Vienna, near Schwedenplatz. He was said to have been shot with a long pistol. One perpetrator was arrested. It has not yet been confirmed if the nearby synagogue was the target of the attack, the spokeswoman said.
According to initial information, there should have been a storm in the synagogue. Several suspected killers are said to have been involved, one of whom was seriously injured. Several police officers are also said to have been seriously injured.
However, according to early eyewitness reports, the incident should have occurred at Seitenstettengasse and Judengasse. There, the killers are said to have fired at the restaurants. At least 100 shots should have been fired. The information situation is still very disorganized.
At the time of the attack, there were probably no people in the city’s temple on Seitenstettengasse and on the premises of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (IKG).
“It sounded like an explosion,” said a witness who wished to remain anonymous, in a special edition of the ORF program “Zeit im Bild”. “Then you realized that it was shooting. Then you saw a person running down the Seitenstetten, (fired) savagely with an automatic weapon. Then he turned around, in the ‘Roter Engel’ (local) from there in the direction of Schwedenplatz. He kept shooting savagely there. Then the police came and shot. “
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