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#BREAKING - Deadly attack
with SUV at shopping mall city of #Graz in #Austria, at least two killed &
50 wounded (Twitter: Roeland Roovers @r0eland)
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At least three people have been killed and dozens injured in
the Austrian city of Graz where a man drove his van into a crowd and then
reportedly went on to stab people. A seven-year-old boy is reportedly among the
victims of the attack.
RT.com reports some of the thirty-four
injured are in critical condition, Austrian Wiener Zeitung reports. Other
sources put the number of those injured at up to 50.
Witnesses of the event
say that a man drove his SUV into the crowd at random and, when the vehicle
stopped, went out wielding a knife. He then started stabbing the near-by
people. The screaming crowd ran into shops to seek help.
"At 12pm there was
an appalling incident in the centre of Graz, which has caused major alarm and
left the city deeply shaken,” a statement from the city council said, "A
killer used his car as a weapon and deliberately ran people down on a rampage.
The perpetrator is in custody."
The man was arrested,
local police told Kleine Zeitung. He is described as a 26-year-old Austrian of
Bosnian origin. Police officials do not attribute the attack to “fanaticism”
and say it has no terrorist background.
The downtown area in
Graz, the second-largest city in Austria, is currently sealed off.
At least 60 ambulances and
four helicopters were deployed at the scene to bring the victims of the attack
to local hospitals.
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