Austria police arrest 14 after Vienna shooting rampage

Police in Austria have arrested more than a dozen people as they look for suspects in deadly shooting attacks in the capital, Vienna.

Security forces raided 18 different locations and made 14 arrests during a massive dragnet on Tuesday, hours after the shootings left four people dead and nearly two dozen others injured across Vienna.

At least 22 people, including a policeman, were also wounded.

One assailant was shot dead by police. But authorities have not ruled out the possibility that more shooters may have been involved.

Austria’s Interior Minister Karl Nehammer announced on Tuesday that the gunmen who was shot dead sympathized with the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group.

“Yesterday we survived an attack of at least one… terrorist. A situation we have not experienced in Austria for decades. The identified criminal was armed with a belt with explosives, which turned out to be fake, and a rifle. The criminal had sympathies for the ISIS terrorist group,” Nehammer said at a press conference in Vienna, using a different acronym for Daesh.

“Yesterday’s attack was an attack on our values and a completely useless attempt to weaken our democratic society or to divide it,” he added. “We do not tolerate this in any way or from anyone.”

Nehammer identified the terrorist as 20-year-old Kujtim Fejzulai, who had dual Austrian and Macedonian nationality.

The Austrian minister said the attacker had been convicted of a terror offense in April last year for trying to travel to Syria.

Vienna police said that SWAT teams on Tuesday entered the gunman’s apartment using explosives, and a search of its surroundings was underway.

The shooting on Monday night took place in six locations in Vienna.

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The Austrian capital remains on high alert following the incident, as police ramp up their investigation into the attack and search for more suspects.

Several neighboring countries have stepped up border checks.

Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz vowed “decisive action” against the perpetrators of the terrorist attack on Monday, underlining that police were concentrating on an anti-terror operation and the army was taking over the security of major buildings in Vienna and across the country.

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European leaders have strongly condemned the Vienna shooting, which follows two terror attacks in France in recent weeks.

Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, said on Twitter that, “Europe strongly condemns this cowardly act that violates life and our human values.”

Other leaders also shared statements expressing their shock and sorrow, including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

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