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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, the Bavarian criminal office has said. 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”.
Authorities are reportedly investigating a possible Islamist connection after police overpowered and arrested the suspect at the station in Grafing, 25 miles south-east of central Munich. 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.
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Ebersberger newspaper said the attacker was a German citizen who was not known to the police. 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.
The Bavarian prosecutors’ office has started a 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.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.