Switzerland: Armed with knife, flammable fluid man attacks people on swiss train, injuries six.
According to current information a 27 years old swiss man pored out a flammable liquid. He was also armed with at least one knife. The liquid caught fire, "St.Gallen cantonal police said in a statement.A man armed with a knife and flammable fluid injured six people in an attack on a swiss train on saturday.
A police statement said the assailant was a 27 years old swiss citizen and that he was also injured in the incident and hospitilazised as were his six victims - three adults, two 17 years olds and a child aged six - with stab and burn wounds. The attack happened at 2:20 a.m. local time as the train was traveling between the towns of Buchs and Sennwald, located in northeast Switzerland.
Law enforcement has secured the train near the Salez railway station. The Daily Mail also reports that the country’s Interior Minister is currently holding an emergency meeting.
A similar assault was committed by an asylum seeker believed to be from Afghanistan or Pakistan who injured five fellow passengers while travelling on a train near the German town of Wurzburg on July 18. The perpetrator had earlier pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
After that attack, another refugee assaulted and killed a woman with a machete in the city of Reutlingen. In addition, on July 24 a Syrian refugee set off a suicide bomb at a festival in the city of Ansbach, injuring 15 people. That attacker had also pledged allegiance to IS.
However, the deadliest assault over the past months took place near the Olympia shopping mall in Munich on July 22, when a German-Iranian killer went on a rampage, killing nine people and injuring over 30 others. That perpetrator was shot dead by police.
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