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VIENNA: Austrian police arrested 14 people in raids related to the deadly attack on Monday (November 2) in Vienna and have found no evidence that a second shooter was involved, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said Tuesday.
“There have been 18 raids in Vienna and Lower Austria and 14 people have been arrested,” Nehammer told a televised press conference.
The minister added that police believe the attack in central Vienna was carried out by a lone gunman, Kujtim Fejzulai, a 20-year-old Islamic State sympathizer who was killed by police on Monday night.
The video footage evaluated by the police “does not at this time show any evidence of a second attacker,” Nehammer said.
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Fejzulai, an Austrian and Macedonian national, was convicted of a terrorism offense in April last year for attempting to travel to Syria.
Nehammer said he had been in a de-radicalization program and had secured an early release.
“The perpetrator managed to fool the justice system de-radicalization program, fool the people in it and obtain an early release through this,” the minister said.
Three people injured in the attacks are in critical condition, fewer than seven this morning, Vienna Mayor Michael Ludwig said at a news conference.
Of the 24 wounded who were transferred to Vienna hospitals, one died, 10 have been discharged and 13 are still in treatment, of which three are in critical condition, he said. That brought the number of injured to more than the 22 mentioned by Interior Minister Karl Nehammer at a press conference shortly before Ludwig’s.
