Austrian soldier killed, another injured in gunfight at airfield barracks

An Austrian soldier was killed and another injured during a shooting at an airfield barracks just outside Vienna early Friday, the army said.

Austrian news agency APA reported that a security guard opened fire during a verbal dispute and was later shot by a high-ranking military officer.

It is not yet clear if the injuries the security guard’s superior sustained were due to the gunfire, APA added.

“A guard was killed and another soldier injured in a gunfight shortly before 7 a.m. today in the airfield barracks in Wiener Neustadt,” south of the capital, army spokesman Michael Bauer wrote on Twitter.

Austrian radio and television ORF reported that the guard who was killed in the barracks of the city, about 60 kilometers south of Vienna, was 20 years old and from the province of Lower Austria.

Such fatal incidents are rare in Austria. In 2019, a 31-year-old Austrian soldier died when two army dogs attacked him, also in the Wiener Neustadt barracks.

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