Two killed in knife attack in Germany

22 January 2025, 06:51 | Updated: 22 January 2025, 14:38

Two people have been killed and two others injured in a stabbing in the southern German state of Bavaria.

A man, described by police as a 28-year-old Afghan national, has been arrested following the knife attack in a park in Aschaffenburg on Wednesday.

A two-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man were killed, police said in a post on X.

Two seriously injured people were receiving hospital treatment. A cordon remains in place in the area around the scene.

Officers have said the motive for the attack is currently unclear.

The suspect, who had followed a daycare group of five small children, was detained at the scene in Schoental park, an English-style garden in the Bavarian city, where the attack occurred at around 11.45am local time.

Train services in the town were temporarily interrupted as the suspect tried to flee along the tracks, German news agency dpa reported.

However, he was quickly detained, police said.

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A witness is being questioned, police added. They said there was no indication of further suspects and no danger to the public.

Police said they did not know the nationality of the two people who were killed and they didn't release any details about those injured.

Germany has been hit by a string of violent attacks, including a car ramming into a crowd at a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg in December, killing six people and injuring about 200.

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