(16 Feb 2025)
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Villach, Austria – 16 February 2025
1. People crying at stabbing scene
2. Flowers and candles
3. Community worker putting up a sign reading (German) ‘Villach mourns’
4. People lighting candles
5. Close of candles
6. Police van at location of attack
7. Street in Villach
7. Various of police
STORYLINE:
The city of Villach in southern Austria was in shock Sunday after a man stabbed six passersby in broad daylight, killing a 14-year-old boy and wounding five others.
Residents began placing candles at the site of the attack in the city of about 60,000 inhabitants.
A group of young people, who knew the boy who died in Saturday’s attack, gathered at the crime scene on Sunday morning to mourn and tearfully light candles, local media reported.
Austrian authorities said Sunday they have classified the deadly stabbing attack in a southern city as an “Islamic terror incident.”
The suspect, a 23-year-old Syrian man, stabbed six passersby in broad daylight in Villach on Saturday, killing a 14-year-old boy and wounding five others.
He was arrested after the attack.
A 42-year-old man, also a Syrian working for a food delivery company, witnessed the attack from his car.
He drove toward the suspect and helped to prevent the situation from escalating, police spokesperson Rainer Dionisio told Austria’s public broadcaster ORF.
Villach, a popular tourist destination near the borders of Italy and Slovenia, is known for its laid-back atmosphere, which blends Mediterranean and Alpine traditions.
The city hosts annual carnival processions in March and an event on Saturday was canceled in the wake of the attack.
This marks the second deadly jihadi attack in Austria in recent years.
In November 2020, a man who had previously attempted to join the Islamic State group carried out a rampage in Vienna, armed with an automatic rifle and a fake explosive vest, killing four people before being fatally shot by police.
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