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The ISI denounced on Tuesday the terrorist attack in the Austrian capital, in which four people died and 15 were injured. The announcement was made in a statement posted on the terrorist organization’s Telegram channel.
The ad is accompanied by a photo of a bearded man who was allegedly a “Caliphate soldier” named Abu Dagnah Al-Albany who attacked passersby in the Austrian capital with firearms before being killed by police. .
Two young men, aged 18 and 24, were arrested on Tuesday near Zurich, in northern Switzerland, for links to the jihadist attack in Vienna, the Swiss police announced, cited by the French station BFM.
“The police investigation led to the identification of Swiss residents aged 18 and 24. The two were arrested in a joint operation with the Austrian authorities,” said the Zurich police.
Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said on Tuesday that Austrian police had made 14 arrests in connection with the terrorist attacks in Vienna on Monday night, Reuters quoted Agerpres as saying.
Nehammer insisted that videos made with citizens’ mobile phones did not indicate that he was more than one attacker. The Austrian minister said the toll from Monday night’s attack amounted to four dead, plus the attacker, and 22 wounded, and that police raided 18 homes.
The Macedonian Interior Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that three people involved in last night’s gun attacks in Vienna had dual Austrian and North Macedonian citizenship, Reuters reported. The three people, identified in the statement only by their initials, were born in Austria, the ministry said.
Editor: Adriana Duțulescu
