• Jihadism: A series of terrorist attacks leaves at least four dead and fifteen injured in Vienna

  • Fejzulai Kujtim. The terrorist killed in Vienna: a 20-year-old Austrian who wanted to travel to Syria and announced the attack on Instagram

German police are conducting searches in several German cities in relation to four people suspected of being linked to the investigation into the alleged Vienna attacker who killed four people by opening fire on passersby and bars on Monday, they reported.

Police in Vienna shot dead the 20-year-old citizen of Albanian origin and the son of immigrants from North Macedonia who had previously been jailed for trying to join the Islamic State in Syria.

Germany's BKA criminal police said on Twitter that they are searching homes and businesses in the German cities of Osnabrueck, Kassel and in the Pinneberg district near Hamburg.

"There is no initial suspicion that the four people affected by today's measures were involved in the attack, but it is believed that there are links to the alleged attacker," they said.

The search warrants were obtained after Austrian justice transferred the information to German prosecutors, the BKA said.

Switzerland has also arrested two men in connection with Monday's attack, and Austria was in close contact with another unspecified country in its investigation, Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said on Thursday.

The 15 people arrested

in Austria in connection with the deadly attack would be close to radical Islamism, officials from the Austrian Interior Ministry said.

Several attackers began shooting at people sitting on the terraces and the interiors of bars and restaurants in the heart of the city, a few meters from the Vienna Central Synagogue.

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