ISIS claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a deadly shooting rampage in Vienna the day before, the group said in a statement on its Telegram channels.

The statement identified "a soldier of the caliphate" as being responsible for the assault on Monday night in the Austrian capital that left four people dead.

In a separate statement, accompanied by a photograph of the armed assailant Abu Dagnah Al-Alban, ISIS propaganda arm Amaq cited "a gun attack yesterday (Monday) by an [Daesh] fighter in the city of Vienna".