Vienna shooting: Terror attack fears after multiple shots fired by city's main synagogue.

[Pachamama]

Source: Express UK

This is just breaking in Europe on News...more to follow

'Seven dead and several injured near Vienna synagogue': Huge manhunt underway as gunman rampages through streets and 'accomplice blows themselves up'

At least seven people are thought to have been killed with several others injured in a suspected gun and suicide attack near a synagogue in Vienna.

A huge manhunt is underway for the gunman, according to local reports, with an accomplice thought to have 'blown themselves up' during the rampage.

Kronen Zeitung, Austria's largest newspaper, is reporting the incident as a terror attack, with a police officer said to have been shot and left in a critical condition.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8906871/Shots-fired-near-synagogue-Vienna-police-say-major-operation-underway.html

Read more: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1355284/vienna-terror-attack-shooting-austria-police-latest-synagogue-news

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Reports are saying multiple dead and that it's a terror attack...here is more info

[Eugene]

1. Please use another source.

The Daily Mail and Daily Express are tabloids, not mainstream reliable sources.

There are several reliable alternatives available.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54786952

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-austria-attack/several-likely-killed-in-suspected-vienna-terror-attack-says-interior-minister-idUSKBN27I2JF

[Behind the Aegis]

2. No surprises.

Let's see how people react/act (or don't) upon hearing the news.

for the dead and their families

[EllieBC]

3. Just Europe being Europe.

Nothing ever changes.

Also be careful, someone will report your comment as “divisive”.

[ripcord]

4. Sad isn't it?

[MicaelS]

6. A curious lack of blame.

Wonder who they do not want to upset?

[BigmanPigman]

5. Joe and Jill already expressed their sympathies today.

Team tRump...of course not.

[appalachiablue]

7. AP News report, 35 mins. ago. Possible antisemitic attack

since the shooting was outside Vienna's main synagogue, closed at the time.

> "The motive was under investigation, but Kurz said the possibility it was an anti-Semitic attack cannot be ruled out, given that the shooting began outside Vienna’s main synagogue. It was closed at the time"...

https://apnews.com/article/austria-vienna-gunfire-several-injured-8f470e305de307b23c8e5a1a94b8036d

[moondust]

8. gunmen "professionally trained" and "prepared"

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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz described the group of gunmen as "professionally trained" and "prepared".
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https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/vienna-synagogue-shooting-active-shooter-situation-in-austria/news-story/9a5d173738b6176b38b04250ff842847

I don't know where Muslims would get rifles and professional training in Austria.

[Devil Child]

11. They train and equip elsewhere, in this case training and equipment from Northern Macedonia.

One of the Islamist terrorists was Albanian immigrant from N. Macedonia who attempted to join IS in 2019.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Latest from Austria Press Agency: 4 victims and 1 attacker dead; "at least one Islamist terrorist"

Via Google Translate:

Four civilians and one perpetrator were killed in the attack on Monday evening in downtown Vienna. The victims are two women and two men. An assassin, who has meanwhile been identified, was shot dead during the police operation. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) spoke at a press conference Tuesday morning of an "attack by at least one Islamist terrorist".

Accordingly, the attacker was a "sympathizer of the IS terrorist militia". The Ministry of the Interior confirmed several house searches “around the perpetrator” on Tuesday morning. Several people were arrested, the Interior Ministry told the APA.

It is still unclear whether the identified IS sympathizer had accomplices. As the spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Harald Sörös, announced on APA request, the authorities assume a maximum of four perpetrators. The investigation is "in full swing," it said.

The series of attacks also claimed numerous serious injuries. One of them is a police officer who was injured while on duty and whose condition was described Tuesday morning as critical but stable. Meanwhile, the number of injuries has increased. 17 people were cared for in Vienna's hospitals, at least six of whom were seriously injured.

https://apa.at/news/vier-zivile-opfer-nach-anschlag-in-wien-ein-taeter-tot-2/

Austrian state broadcaster ORF reports that several people have been arrested and that seven police officers “made use of their service weapons on Monday evening in the course of the terrorist attack”.

Also, here is more detail from that press conference earlier:

The perpetrator was “neutralized” at 8:09 pm, said Vienna’s police chief Gerhard Pürstl at the joint press conference with Nehammer in the morning. According to the general director for public security, Franz Ruf, the perpetrator’s apartment was forcibly opened with explosives and searched.

The interior minister did not answer the question of whether a detonation perceived by witnesses during the night in Simmering could have been this opening of the apartment. There was also no information on whether other people were found at his home address during the house search or whether other people were reported there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/nov/03/vienna-austria-synagogue-terror-attack-police-live-updates?page=with:block-5fa101fc8f08d87cfa225544#block-5fa101fc8f08d87cfa225544

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. 20 year old attacker jailed in 2019 for trying to join IS in Syria

Austrian police have urged people to stay indoors as they hunt for suspects after a multiple gun attack in the capital Vienna that killed four people.
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Seven of the 17 people wounded have life-threatening injuries. Gunmen opened fire at six locations in the city centre on Monday evening.
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Interior Minister Karl Nehammer described the dead gunman as an "Islamist terrorist", jailed for 22 months in April 2019 after trying to get to war-torn Syria to join Islamic State (IS) jihadists. The 20-year-old had been released early last December under more lenient terms for young adults.
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The man was originally from North Macedonia and had a previous conviction for terrorist association, Mr Nehammer said. He had both Austrian and North Macedonian citizenship.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54788613