Vienna terrorist attack leaves at least 4 dead and several injured

• Interior Minister Karl Nehammer tweeted that the suspect, who was armed with an explosives belt, which turned out to be fake, and an assault rifle was a known sympathyzer of the Islamic State militant group.
• The suspect's apartment was being searched by a SWAT team, police said.

Background: Gunfire started hours before the start of a nationwide lockdown to combat a surge in coronavirus cases.

• Several gunmen opened fire near a synagogue in Vienna on Monday night, killing two males and one female and wounding others, including a police officer, officials said. The wounded were being treated in the hospital.
• The head of the Vienna’s Jewish community said in a Twitter post that it remains unknown whether Seitenstettengasse Temple, Vienna’s main synagogue, was a target, but that it was closed at the time of the shooting.
• The Austrian Armed Forces were brought in to help police with the response to the attack, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, said in a tweet.

Editor's note: This article has been updated with new details throughout.