By: Fern Sidman
Tuesday 11/4 update
Austria’s interior minister Karl Nehammer described the dead suspect as an “ISIS sympathizer” and he said the evidence gathered so far shows no indication there was a second attacker.
AN ISIS gunman armed with an assault rifle and wearing a fake bomb vest was shot dead as four people were killed and 22 wounded in a terrorist rampage in Vienna, Sun US Reported.
Police have detained 14 people in connection with last night’s rampage after the extremist opened fire near a synagogue and busy restaurants at six sites in the Austrian capital.
SUN US Reported:
The gunman opened fire on drinkers sitting in beer gardens near Vienna’s main synagogue on the Seitenstettengasse last night.
The next hour saw violence and bloodshed as police deployed every cop they could to at least six crime scenes.
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UPDATE
Austrian media now reporting seven dead, including one police officer, in Monday evening’s attack near a synagogue in Vienna.
Other sources are saying: The Interior Ministry confirmed that two people were killed, one of them a terrorist. At least 15 people were injured, seven of them seriously.
Media reports also said gunmen took hostages during the first shooting.
Another shooting is reportedly underway at a Hilton hotel in Vienna, and hostages have reportedly been taken by terrorists at a third location.
All of this has a hint of coordination, though the information is limited so far.
Some sources from Vienna claim the shooter blew himself up with an explosive vest, this is not confirmed as the story is rapidly developing
Austrian media is reporting seven dead, including one police officer, in the shooting near a Vienna synagogue. https://t.co/T47FK5L8Pd
— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) November 2, 2020
Fern Sidman
At least one person was killed and several others were wounded in a shooting outside a synagogue in Vienna, Austria Monday evening, as was reported by Israel National News.
Local media reports bystanders fleeing from the scene after multiple shots were fired outside the Seitenstettengasse Temple, the main synagogue in Vienna. According to unconfirmed initial reports from Vienna, the attack targeted the synagogue, which was empty. Security at the synagogue fired back and the shooter continued to attack people eating outdoors in a restaurant, as was reported by Arutz Sheva.
AP reported that Oskar Deutsch, the head of the Jewish community in Vienna, said the shooting took place in the street where the city’s main synagogue is located but that it wasn’t clear whether the house of worship had been targeted.
The Austrian Interior Ministry confirmed that there was at least one fatality at the scene.
Police are at the scene and are conducting a large operation to capture the shooter, who has fled the scene, as was reported by A7.
AP reported that police said the operation in the center of the city was ongoing and urged people to avoid all open spaces and public transport.
“There are several injured persons,” police tweeted. “We are on site with all available forces. Please avoid all public squares in the city.”
Israel’s Channel 12 News’ Elad Simchayoff tweeted following the shooting: “I’ve heard reports from individuals with knowledge of the shooting in Vienna that the Great Synagogue in the city along with the nearby Jewish restaurant were locked [at the time of the shooting]. The synagogue is thoroughly secured. It appears – and this is the assumption at the moment- that the incident may have been a criminal attack, and synagogue security may have intervened. As previously stated, the investigation is ongoing and the attacker seems to have escaped.”
The Seitenstettengasse Temple was the target of two attacks by Palestinian Arab terrorists in 1979 and 1981, the latter of which killed two people.