Reports: Shooter from Vienna Attacks Acquired Ammunition in Slovakia

Vienna/Bratislava, November 3 (TASR) - A shooter who took part in the Vienna terror attacks on Monday and was shot dead by the police, acquired the ammunition for his AK-47 rifle in Slovakia in the summer, wrote Austrian daily Heute on its website on Tuesday, with this piece of information later confirmed for Slovak television channel JOJ by Interior Minister Roman Mikulec (OLaNO). According to Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer, 20-year-old Kujtim Fejzulai, who possessed both Austrian and North-Macedonian citizenship, was convicted in the past for being a member of a terror organisation. Following his arrest in Austria for attempting to travel to Syria to join terror organisation Islamic State, he was sentenced to 22 months in prison in April last year, but was released on parole in December. Several people were killed, while others sustained injuries in shootings in six locations in Vienna, including in an area close to a synagogue, on Monday evening. The Austrian authorities have confirmed that the shootings were acts of terrorism in which several perpetrators were involved. bub/df