2 injured in knife assault in south Germany, suspect killed: Police

Two folks had been injured after a 30-year-old man attacked a number of passers-by with a knife. The suspect attacked the police who opened hearth and fatally wounded him.

The man shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ a number of occasions through the fee of the crime (Photo: Representational)

A knife-wielding man wounded two folks in a southern German city on Thursday earlier than being fatally shot by police who stated they had been investigating a attainable “Islamist or terrorist context”.

The 30-year-old man attacked a number of passers-by “with at least one knife”, close to the prepare station in Ansbach, a Bavarian city near Nuremberg, based on native police.

Two folks had been injured however their lives weren’t in peril, the assertion stated.

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When safety forces intervened, the assailant “attacked the police” who opened hearth and fatally wounded him, the assertion added.

“The man shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ several times during the commission of the crime,” police stated, including that they had been investigating “whether the crime had a link with an Islamist or terrorist context”.

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