Kurdish demonstration in Austria attacked by radical Muslims

Kurdish demonstration in Austria attacked by radical Muslims.
VIENNA,— Two people were seriously wounded Saturday as a Kurdish demonstration was attacked by radical Muslims in the western Austrian city of Bregenz, police said, days after clashes in neighbouring Germany left 23 injured.

The two men were rushed to hospital with stab wounds in the stomach and one was in critical condition, a police spokesman said.

A few hundred Kurds marched through Bregenz Saturday afternoon to show support for Kurdish fighters defending the Kurdish city of Kobani in Syrian Kurdistan on the Turkish border, currently besieged by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).

Following the stabbing incident, the march had to proceed under a massive police presence.
On Friday, a pro-Kurdish demonstration in Vienna with several thousand protesters passed off peacefully.

In neighbouring Germany, at least 23 people were hurt this week in violent clashes between Kurds and radical Muslims.

Meanwhile in Germany over 20,000 Kurds protested against the Islamic State group in the western German city of Duesseldorf Saturday, according to the police.

Kurdish organisations called the demonstration to protest attacks by IS jihadist militants on Kurdish towns in Syrian Kurdistan,www.Ekurd.net particularly the besiegement of the town of Kobani.

The protesters planned to march through the city, across a bridge over the river Rhine, finishing at the site of the North Rhine-Wesphalia state parliament in the afternoon. The protest's official motto reads: "Stop the terrorist IS - Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan."
news agency, AFP