ISIS Claims Deadly Vienna Attack

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, President Alexander van der Bellen and Parliament President Werner Sobotka attended the Vienna incident wreath-laying ceremony (Source: Antara)

JAKARTA - The ISIS group claims responsibility for the deadly attack in Vienna. The claim is submitted in a statement released through the Amaq News Agency.

The news agency belongs to ISIS. The claim on Tuesday, November 3 was accompanied by photos and videos showing the gunman.

The photo released via Telegram shows a bearded man identified as Abu Dagnah Al-Albany. An accompanying statement reads that he had attacked a crowd in Vienna on Monday, November 2 with a pistol and machine gun before being shot dead by police.

In the photo, Albany is carrying a pistol, machine gun and machete and wearing a ring that reads "Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."

Shortly thereafter, Amaq also uploaded a video of Albany making a pledge of allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi. In the video he speaks Arabic.

Albany is usually used of someone who comes from Albania. And the statement does not identify the man by any other name.

Austrian officials identified the perpetrator as Kujtim Fejzulai, a dual national of Austria and North Macedonia. He was sentenced to 22 months in prison in April 2009 for planning to go to Syria to join ISIS.

Kujtim is known to have inhaled his release from prison for less than a year. The gunman died at police hands after slaughtering a crowd at the bar.