Soldier killed in gunfire by superiors

A 20-year-old guard was killed in a shootout in a barracks in Vienna. According to initial information, there was a dispute between the two parties involved.

(dpa) An Austrian guard was killed by his superior in a shootout. The soldier had previously attacked his superior with the assault rifle and fired several shots at the airfield barracks in Wiener Neustadt on Friday morning, said the spokesman for the Austrian Ministry of Defence, Michael Bauer, the German Press Agency. The supervisor then shot the man with a pistol.

According to initial information, the incident was preceded by a dispute, said Bauer. The supervisor was injured in the course of the argument. According to the spokesman, the dead man was born in 2002 and did his military service in Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria.


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