INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
VIENNA: Music lovers were enjoying an opera, with young people in bars raising a final glass together before a new coronavirus lockdown,
when gunmen suddenly opened fire in Vienna, brutally shattering the calm of the Austrian capital late Monday night.Five people have died,
including an assailant, and 17 others have been wounded in Vienna, when attackers opened fire in six central locations -- including one near
before police arrived and opened fire."They looked like firecrackers, then we realized that they were gunshots," said one witness on public
broadcaster ORF.With one assailant shot dead, the city's mayor urged people to remain indoors as police said a huge manhunt was underway for
one of the attackers.Austria's interior minister said Tuesday that the attacker shot dead by police was a sympathiser of the Islamic State
major attacks that have hit other European countries, with France experiencing two terror attacks only last month."We are dealing with a
terror attack the severity of which, thank God, we have not experienced in Austria in many years," the city's mayor Michael Ludwig said at
press conference early Tuesday."At the beginning, I thought to myself that maybe we were making an American film or that they had drunk too
much," said waiter Jimmy Eroglu, 42.But then he heard shots
residents to shelter in place as the manhunt got underway, with helicopters sweeping the skies above the city and officers hastily erecting
cordons on streets that only hours earlier were thronged with people enjoying a last drink before lockdown.Robert Schneider, who lives in
central Vienna, left his house briefly and found two lasers trained on his chest."Hands up, take off your jacket," officers shouted at him,
"We had seen nothing, heard nothing
hear these noises in Austria you don't think they're gunshots, you really don't," he told the Guardian newspaper.Gruber, en route to the
Hard Rock cafe around the corner from one of the sites of the attacks, said he had heard about similar incidents in other countries."But
I've never been close to one
It was really frightening."
