A Syrian refugee has killed a woman and injured at least two others
while attacking them with a machete in the southern German city
Reutlingen, German police say.
The 21-year-old suspect, who was
arrested on Sunday, was known to police for previous allegations of
violence and was believed to have been acting alone.
The assailant’s motives were unknown.
“There is no danger to
anyone else at this time,” a police official told Reuters news agency,
adding that there was no indication the attack was politically
motivated.
The attack came days after a gunman killed at least
nine people in the southern city of Munich in a shooting authorities say
was inspired by Anders Breivik, the Norweigan far-right attacker who
killed 77 people in 2011.
On July 17, a 17-year-old Afghan refugee
was shot dead by police after injuring several train passengers in an
attack with an axe and a knife near the southern city of Wuerzburg.