Arina Rukas is in Vienna to visit her boyfriend Gustav Jasinski, who is studying in the city.
They had just been out eating one last dinner before the shutdown of the community was to begin tomorrow.
"The situation is very reminiscent of the terrorist attack in Stockholm in 2017 with many rumors that are unconfirmed.
We are currently with students from different countries in our apartment in central Vienna and hiding indoors.
We follow the updates via Austrian news, and hear blue lights and helicopters regularly ", Arina Rukas writes to SVT in a message.
She does not want to be interviewed over the phone due to the tense atmosphere in the home right now.
Arina Rukas and her boyfriend's acquaintances, who are currently in the same apartment, will probably stay there overnight, for fear of going out.
"We are very worried about how the situation will develop.
We do not know how safe it is on the streets right now and when the situation will stabilize. "
She mostly thinks of the people who have been affected.
"It is heartbreaking that people are being injured, in the midst of the serious situation of the pandemic that has escalated in recent days here in Vienna."