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Interior Minister Karl Nehammer told the Austrian news agency APA that several people had been arrested during a raid on 15 houses.
The shooting, which took place in central Vienna a few hours before the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine occurred, killed five people, including the attacker, Austrian authorities said on Tuesday.
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According to Interior Minister Karl Nehammer, two men and two women were mortally wounded in the attack in central Vienna. Police also shot the assailant, armed with a machine gun and wrapped in a fake belt of a deadly explosive.
A hospital service said the lives of seven people killed in the attack were in danger, the Austrian news agency APA reported. A total of 17 people are receiving treatment in hospitals for gunshot and stab wounds.
Nehammer said preliminary findings showed the victim sympathized with the Islamic State jihadist movement. Police searched the man’s apartment and searched other locations, the APA reported.
According to the minister, the authorities are still trying to determine if there are other attackers at large. Vienna residents were urged to stay home on Tuesday and the children did not have to go to school. About 1,000 police officers were on duty in the city Tuesday morning.
Among the injured is a police officer, Nehammer said. This 28-year-old civil servant is hospitalized, but his life is not in danger.
Filming began shortly after 8 p.m. local time (9 p.m. Lithuania) on Monday near Vienna’s main synagogue, while many people had fun on the last night of the bars and restaurants without closing before a month-long quarantine which went into effect at midnight.
Austrian authorities have decided to declare three days of mourning in the country for the terrorist attack in Vienna, the German daily Tagesspiegel reported on Tuesday.
The decision was made at an extraordinary meeting of the Austrian cabinet on Tuesday morning.
12 pm A minute of silence in memory of the victims was announced at local time (1 pm Lithuania). Flags were dropped at government offices.
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