Frightening moments in a regional train on the connecting route cottbus To Frankfurt Oder, in Germany. A man armed with an ax attacked passengers who were in different carriages. Worst of all was a 17-year-old girl who sustained a head injury.
According to German media reports, the girl’s life is not in danger. Police arrested a 37-year-old man of Polish nationality suspected of being responsible for the Friday March 24 attack. The motive is not yet clear.
Attack with an ax on the train
German police did not release many details about the incident. According to information from local newspapers, the 37-year-old is said to have boarded the train Guben. Once on board, he walked into several carriages and wielded a weapon resembling an axe.
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A 17-year-old was shot in the head and is now being taken to hospital but her life would not be in danger. The alarm went off around 1:00 p.m. on Friday, March 24, and agents intervened shortly thereafter. The attacker, a 37-year-old Polish national, was arrested. However, the motive for the attack has not yet been clarified.
2016 a similar episode in Germany
A similar incident happened in Germany in 2016. At that time, a 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker attacked the passengers of an oncoming train Wuerzburg (Bavaria) with an axe.
The last victim had been four injured, two of them seriously, all members of a family of Chinese nationality. The young attacker was killed by the police while attempting to escape.
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