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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday condemned a "brutal" shooting rampage through central Vienna in which at least four people were killed. One of the suspects in the Monday evening shootings, at multiple locations including near a synagogue and the world famous opera house, was shot dead by police and identified as an Islamic State group sympathiser. It was unclear how many assailants were involved. "Israel condemns the brutal attack in Vienna and stands in total solidarity with Austria," Netanyahu posted in English on his Twitter account. "Civilised peoples everywhere must unite to defeat the savagery of resurgent Islamist terrorism." Two men and two women were killed in the attack, an Austrian interior ministry spokesman said, while about 15 more were wounded, seven of them seriously. Police said an officer had been hurt. The president of Vienna's Jewish community Oskar Deutsch said shots had been fired "in the immediate vicinity" of the Stadttempel synagogue, but added that it was not yet known whether the building -- closed at the time -- had been the target. scw/bs/kir
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