{"id":60295,"date":"2018-03-08T05:54:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T05:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=60295"},"modified":"2018-03-08T05:54:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T05:54:39","slug":"four-people-seriously-hurt-knife-attacks-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/four-people-seriously-hurt-knife-attacks-vienna.html","title":{"rendered":"Four people seriously hurt in knife attacks in Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Four people seriously hurt in knife attacks in Vienna<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Four people were seriously wounded in two knife attacks in a district of the Austrian capital, Vienna, on Wednesday evening, but a motive or any connection between the assaults was unclear, a police spokesman said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The stabbings &#8211; the first of which took place at 7:45 p.m. (1845 GMT), occurred in Vienna\u2019s Second District, which includes the famous Prater park as well as the Praterstern transport hub. It also houses much of Vienna\u2019s small Jewish community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cA man attacked a family &#8211; a father, a mother and their 17-year-old daughter &#8211; with a knife. The three people were seriously injured and their lives are in danger,\u201d the spokesman said, adding later that they were Austrian citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cAnd half an hour later, there was another attack &#8230; at Praterstern and here a person was also seriously injured and their life is in danger. We do not know to what extent there is a connection here and any motive remains unclear,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Asked what was known about an assailant, he added: \u201cAbsolutely nothing. We know we are looking for a man.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A male citizen of Afghanistan was later arrested in connection with the second assault, but no further details were immediately available and any connection between the stabbings remained unclear, the spokesman said shortly afterward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Vienna has not experienced deadly attacks by Islamist militants like the ones that have struck Paris, Berlin and Brussels since 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/austria-attack\/four-people-seriously-hurt-in-knife-attacks-in-vienna-idINKCN1GJ37H<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/four-people-seriously-hurt-knife-attacks-vienna.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people seriously hurt in knife attacks in Vienna Four people were seriously wounded in two knife attacks in a district of the Austrian capital, Vienna, on Wednesday evening, but a motive or any connection between the assaults was unclear, a police spokesman said. 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