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One dead and three injured in knife attack at train station near Munich | |
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One person has died and three others are injured after a man launched a knife attack at a train station in southern Germany. | |
Police arrested the perpetrator after he was overpowered at the station in Grafing, 25 miles south-east of central Munich. | |
One of the victims died of his injuries, Bavarian Radio and other local media reported. | |
Ein Schwerverletzter Hat Messerstecherangriff von #Grafing islamistischen Hintergrund?: https://t.co/tPgW7xi4rn pic.twitter.com/esaVgXjSp9 | |
Ebersberger newspaper said the attacker was a German citizen who is not known to the police. | |
The Bavarian prosecutors office has started criminal investigation and has imposed a news blackout. The station has been cordoned off by police. | |
Germany, which is playing a supporting role in the fight against Islamic State, has not suffered the kind of major attack by Islamist militants experienced by neighbouring France and Belgium. | |
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