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One dead and three injured in knife attack at train station near Munich | One dead and three injured in knife attack at train station near Munich |
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One person has died and three others have been injured after a man launched a knife attack at a train station in southern Germany that prosecutors said had “an apparent Islamist motive”. | |
Police arrested the suspected attacker after he was overpowered at the railway station in Grafing, 25 miles south-east of central Munich. | |
Prosecutors said the person who died was a 50-year-old from the town of Wasserburg. | |
A spokesman for the Bavarian prosecutors’ office said the suspect was a 27-year-old German “who made remarks at the scene of the crime that indicate a political motive – apparently an Islamist motive”. | |
“We are still determining what the exact remarks were,” the spokesman said. | |
Police said that according to the first, unverified eyewitness accounts, the suspect shouted “Allahu akbar” (“God is greatest”) during the attack. | |
Ein Schwerverletzter Hat Messerstecherangriff von #Grafing islamistischen Hintergrund?: https://t.co/tPgW7xi4rn pic.twitter.com/esaVgXjSp9 | Ein Schwerverletzter Hat Messerstecherangriff von #Grafing islamistischen Hintergrund?: https://t.co/tPgW7xi4rn pic.twitter.com/esaVgXjSp9 |
The prosecutors’ office has started a criminal investigation and denied initial reports it had imposed a news blackout. The railway station has been cordoned off by police leading to restrictions on Munich’s S-Bahn rail network. | |
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. | 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. |