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Vienna police tweeted: “There was a shooting in the city center and someone was injured. Please avoid going to all public places or taking public transport.”
The Associated Press reported that the attack had killed at least 2 people, including a gunman, and injured 15 people, including 7 seriously.
Videos circulating on social media showed a gunman dressed in white walking down a cobbled street and shooting. More images showed an exchange of gunfire near Schwedenplatz, near the Danube River. The square is adjacent to a synagogue built in 1820 in Vienna.
Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer told the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF that it was certain that the shooting was started by several people and that the six shooting sites were around the street where the synagogue was located.
Nehammer said: “For the moment, I can confirm that this is clearly a terrorist attack.”
Before the deadline, Nehammer also confirmed that many people were killed in the attacker and that at least one gunman was still on the run.
Authorities immediately began a large-scale hunt in the city center. Given that the synagogue and neighboring community offices were closed at the time of the attack, it is unclear whether the attackers attacked these two locations or committed the crime at random.
The Jewish leader in Vienna, Oskar Deutsch, tweeted that it is unknown whether the Jewish room and the immediate office were the target of the attack, but were closed at the time of the incident.
A few days ago, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (Sebastian Kurz) declared that his government would fight against “politicized Islam” in response to a group of about 30-50 Turkish teenagers who chanted “Allah is supreme”. And he rushed into the Catholic Church of St. Anton von Padua.
After French President Emmanuel Macron issued a similar statement criticizing radical Islamists, there was an attack near the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in Nice last week, resulting in three deaths.
Vienna Police urges citizens to avoid empty places and public transport places, and refrain from re-posting relevant videos online, so as not to affect police operations and endanger public safety.
Rabbi Schlomo Hofmeister, a witness, told the Associated Press that he saw at least one person shoot at a person sitting outside a bar on the street below the window. Hofmeister said: “At least 100 bullets were fired outside our building.”
Hofmeister stated that since Vienna has tightened the blockade measures against the epidemic since November 3, all the bars were filled with tables on the night of the 2nd so that people could go out for drinks before the blockade.
In 1981, in the same synagogue in Vienna, two Palestinians launched an attack, causing 2 deaths and 18 injuries. In 1985, an extremist Palestinian organization attacked the Vienna airport with grenades and assault rifles, killing three civilians.
Editor in charge: Lin Yan #
