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Deadly exchange of fire in the Austrian army: here soldiers during an exercise in Vienna in November 2022 (archive image).
An Austrian guard was killed by his superior in a shootout. The soldier had previously fired several shots with an assault rifle at the airfield barracks in Wiener Neustadt on Friday morning.
The spokesman for the Austrian Ministry of Defense, Michael Bauer, told the DPA news 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. (zis)