Shooting in Vienna

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SHOTS have been fired at one of Vienna’s most famous restaurants, with armed police rushing to the scene. One person is feared to have been killed.

At least two people are believed to have been shot at Figlmüller, in the heart of the Austrian capital, one possibly fatally. Local media have confirmed police armed with machine guns are at the scene. A police spokesman told Heute newspaper: “Two people are seriously injured, one person is on the run.”

The shooting began at around 1.30pm local time (12.30pm GMT), with diners and nearby shoppers fleeing the scene. A witness said a crowd of "20 or 30" people ran in a panic away from the scene. One resident told Heute: “When I looked out the window, I saw police everywhere and a helicopter circling in the air.” They reported hearing people shout: “There’s shooting, there’s shooting!"

Police helicopters have been scrambled above Vienna as police hunt for the shooters, while the area surrounding the restaurant has been sealed off.

Police said they do not believe the incident is terror-related and there is no danger to the public.

The motivation for the attack remains unclear.


Not a lot of information on this yet.

These mass shootings are starting to happen everywhere now, and not just the US. Damn.

I'd say these sort of things have been all over the world - the US has them more often because of gun laws and because of poor mental health treatment. Additionally, the number of people might be a factor in the amount of shootings in the US.

School Massacre Archives wrote:

These mass shootings are starting to happen everywhere now, and not just the US. Damn.

I'm curious about these non-American shootings, about how these fellows managed to obtain their guns. I want to understand where and how gun control failed.

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A manhunt is under way in Vienna for an attacker who has shot one person dead and injured another.
Two people were found with gunshot wounds at around 1.30pm on Friday in the Lugeck area of the Austrian capital, police said in a statement.

The Vienna Rescue Service announced little more than 10 minutes after they had been called to the scene that one of the victims had died.

“A manhunt is currently underway,” a police spokesman added “Further circumstances are not yet clear.”

A police spokesman said the shooting appeared to be a “targeted criminal act” rather than part of a shooting spree, ruling out terrorism as a cause.

Officers have said the incident does not pose any immediate danger to the wider public.
The area where the shooting took place has been cordoned off as police helicopters hover overhead as part of the search.

The shooting is understood to have taken place in an alleyway that houses Figlmueller, a restaurant popular with tourists who flock to the city in the run-up to Christmas.

Harald Prochazka, the director of Figlmueller, told daily newspaper Oesterreich's online TV channel that three people involved in the shooting ate at the restaurant beforehand.

“Everything was in order. They also left the restaurant calmly together,” he said.

A witness who was interviewed on OE24 television, who called himself a Lithuanian journalist but didn't give his name, said he heard about 10 pistol shots and saw two people lying on the ground in a passage between two streets.

He said a third man was talking to one of those people in a Slavic language, but he couldn't say which one.


Seems like terrorism isn't the motive here.