At least three people have been killed and 15 wounded in a series of shootings in Austria’s capital. The Interior Ministry said the attack was carried out by at least one “Islamist terrorist.”
A terror attack in Vienna that left three people dead was carried out by at least one Islamic terrrorist, Austria’s Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
Interior Minister Karl Nehammer told a morning news conference that police shot dead a heavily armed attacker who was a sympathizer of the extremist group Islamic State.
“We experienced an attack yesterday evening from at least one Islamist terrorist,” he said, adding that authorities could not rule out that there were more perpetrators.
Some 1,000 police officers have been deployed across Vienna in the wake of the shootings, which began late Monday outside the city’s main synagogue. Police said there were “suspects armed with rifles in six different locations” across the city.