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The APA news agency quoted the Austrian Interior Ministry as saying that one attacker was “dead” and the other “escaped”.
Initial media reports that the target of the attack was the Vienna synagogue have yet to be confirmed.
A report from the public broadcaster ORF says that the police organized a major operation in the synagogue, where after 8 pm several shots were fired at local time (9 pm, Lithuania).
The police have indicated that the operation in the city center continues and warned the population to avoid open spaces and public transport.
“There are several people injured,” police said in a Twitter message. – We are on the scene with all available forces. Avoid all public spaces in the city. “
Police indicated that the circumstances of the incident are still being clarified.
The president of a Jewish community, Oskar Deutsch, said the shooting was “near” the State Synagogue, but added that it was not yet known whether the houses of worship themselves were the target of the attack.
According to him, the synagogue and offices in the country were already closed during the attack.
“The sound was like fireworks, then we realized it was gunshots,” an eyewitness told ORF.
The shooter “smoked with an automatic weapon” before the police arrived and began to shoot, added the interlocutor of the station.
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