TIL Desk/World/Vienna/ At least 14 people were arrested after multiple police raids were carried out in connection to the shootings in the Austrian capital of Vienna that claimed the lives of four people earlier this week, the media reported on Wednesday.
In a statement, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said the 14 people linked to the 20-year-old Islamist gunman Kujtim Fejzulai, who had been freed from jail last December, were arrested in the Vienna area, St Polten town and Linz city. Fejzulai was shot dead by the police as he fired on passers-by on Monday evening near the Seitenstettengasse synagogue at a city centre area.
The gunman has been April 2019 for trying to travel to Syria to join Islamic State (IS) jihadis. Nehammer said that although there was no indication of the involvement of a second assailant, but the possibility could not be ruled out immediately. In a video on its online propaganda channel, the IS terror group claimed responsibility for the attack.
