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2020 Vienna attacks

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2020 Vienna attacks
The 2020 Vienna attack was a terrorist attack involving a series of shooting incidents on 2 November 2020 in Vienna, Austria. One or more gunmen[1] opened fire with assault rifles near the street on which the central synagogue is located in Vienna, the capital of Austria. The deaths of four civilians and one perpetrator were confirmed in the hours after the attack, and seven others were critically injured. Ten other people were injured,[1] with one of them being a police officer. Officials said that the attacker who was killed was an Islamic State sympathizer, and that the attack was an Islamist terrorism incident.[2][3] Other attackers were reported to be on the loose, and were being hunted by the Austrian special forces units EKO Cobra and WEGA.

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