{"id":328317,"date":"2020-11-04T05:56:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T05:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328317"},"modified":"2020-11-04T05:56:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T05:56:19","slug":"islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-vienna-terror-attack-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-vienna-terror-attack-in-austria\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State claims responsibility for Vienna terror attack in Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_312075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312075\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-terrorists-fire-upon-two-persons-in-shopian\/terrorist-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-312075\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312075\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/terrorist-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/terrorist-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/terrorist.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-312075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The Islamic State has claimed the responsibility for the Vienna terror attack, calling the shooter a &#8216;soldier of the caliphate&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">At least four people were killed and 22 people were wounded after gunmen opened fire on people at Vienna\u2019s cafes and restaurants on Monday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The man who opened fire has been identified as Kujtim Fejzulai, a 20-year-old Austrian citizen, who had sought to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State, Austria&#8217;s Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to reports, the shooter was armed with an automatic rifle, a pistol, and a machete and was wearing a fake explosive device.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">As per reports, the suspect had been arrested once before after he tried to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. The man was sentenced to 22 months in prison but was released early.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamic State has claimed the responsibility for the Vienna terror attack, calling the shooter a &#8216;soldier of the caliphate&#8217;. At least four people were killed and 22 people were wounded after gunmen opened fire on people at Vienna\u2019s cafes and restaurants on Monday night. The man who opened fire has been identified as Kujtim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":312075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[2124,2219,13665],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328318,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328317\/revisions\/328318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}