ISIS claims responsibility for Vienna attack
CAIRO (Reuters) – ISIS claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a deadly attack in Vienna, in a statement issued through its Amaq News Agency along with a picture and video purporting to show the gunman.
The picture, released on Telegram, showed a bearded man identified as "Abu Dagnah Al-Albany". The accompanying statement said he had attacked crowds in central Vienna on Monday with a pistol and machine gun before being shot dead by police.
In the photo, Albany carries a pistol,‮‮ ‬‬a machine gun and a machete and is wearing a ring stamped with a sentence saying "Mohammed is the messenger of Allah".
Amaq posted a video of Albany minutes later in which he pled allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi. He was speaking Arabic in the video.
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