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There are wounded in a shooting in the center of Vienna on the street near the main synagogue of the city. The local newspaper “Kronen Zeitung” reported an attack on the temple and a seriously injured police officer. “At least one” perpetrator was killed, confirmed to “Zeit im Build”, the Austrian television newscast, a police spokesman.
The Austrian Interior Ministry considers the attack “terrorist” and carried out by “various people”. Austrian public television cited 8 pm local time (9 pm Bulgarian time) as the time of the shooting, citing eyewitnesses.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sofia, there is no data on Bulgarian citizens injured at 10:45 pm
Recently it was confirmed that there were “several injuries”, without specifying details, minutes after it was announced that there was a concentration of police in the central part of Vienna. A suspect has been arrested, according to the Austrian Telegraph Agency. They can be seen in a video on Twitter. running people in the area. Another spreads on the social network with the statement that the attacker can be seen there.
There were reports of an assault on the synagogue. Other media reported that the shooting took place in nearby Schwedenplatz square. According to the Di Presse newspaper, which shares this version, the attack was not against a synagogue: several alleged murderers fired at a restaurant or a store; he fired “at least a hundred shots,” according to eyewitnesses.
There are also several “seriously injured”, but confirmation of whether there have been deaths is pending.
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Florian Klenk, editor-in-chief of the Cronen Zeitung, quoted the Interior Ministry in a Twitter message as saying that there was a “terrorist attack in a Viennese synagogue, one dead, several injured.”
“Everything is in a ‘very hot phase’ and it is not ‘absolutely clear’ what is happening, said the spokesman, who urged the population to avoid the area or return to the buildings.
Shortly before 10 p.m. Bulgarian time, the president of one of Austria’s most important Jewish associations, Oscar Deutsch, wrote on Twitter that at the moment it is not possible to say whether the synagogue was the target of the attack, but it is a fact that at the time of the shooting both she and an office related to her activities were closed.
Still from a video of the alleged attacker. The images also show a shot of a man in the same clothing lying face down on the street, probably shot by police.
More details are expected later at www.dnevnik.bg.
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