*"In this incident there was a celebration going on among followers of the Sikhs -- they were holding a ceremony. Suddenly six people did not agree with the procedures and the preacher and they pulled out weapons -- one had a gun and five others knives."
Onlookers overpowered the six attackers -- sustaining injuries in the process. Bloodstained members of the Sikh community were seen standing shocked on the street outside the temple afterwards. One commented that the temple resembled a battlefield.
"All six attackers were overcome by the followers in the temple and badly injured. We can't yet say by whom. Visitors to the temple were also injured," Takacs said. (DTN News Defense-Technology News .... May 25, 2009)
(NSI News Source Info) AUSTRIA - May 25 2009: Sikh followers clashed with knives and at least one gun at a temple in Vienna on Sunday, injuring some 30 people in a dispute between rival religious communities, police and witnesses said.
An Indian woman talks to a cop in front of the Vienna gurdwara where the shooting happened Sunday.
Separately, Indian media said a curfew was imposed in parts of the Sikh-majority city of Jalandhar in the northern Indian state of Punjab after violence broke out, apparently in response to news of the Vienna incident.
The clash in Austria broke out around 1:30 pm (1130 GMT) and saw the perpetrators pull out knives and a gun as two gurus visiting from India gave a sermon at the temple, where some 200 people had gathered.
Medics prepare an injured person for transport by helicopter following a shooting in a Sikh temple in Vienna May 24, 2009. A Sikh preacher wounded in the attack on the temple in Vienna has died, the Austrian national news agency APA said on Monday, citing a police official. At least nine people were wounded on Sunday when armed men attacked the preacher and worshippers with a gun and knives. Picture taken May 24, 2009.
Others in the audience pounced on the attackers, who a witness said were wearing yellow and blue turbans, and subdued them, according to police.
A train is set on fire by protesters to protest against the attacks on Sikh religious leaders at a temple in Austria's capital on Sunday, in Jalandhar, India, Monday, May 25, 2009. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed for calm Monday as riots spread to several north Indian cities to protest a deadly shooting at a Sikh temple in Austria.
The two gurus, Sant Niranjan Dass, 66, and Sant Rama Nand, 56, of the Shri Guru Ravidas Sabha movement, were among those shot. A police spokesman said they were in stable condition on Sunday evening after undergoing surgery.
Dass was hit in the abdomen and hip, while Nand was struck in the abdomen and back.
Some victims were hit in the stomach and legs by bullets, and the injured were taken away aboard three helicopters for treatment.
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