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Germany train axe attack: Refugee teenager 'had hand-drawn Isis flag' in bedroom, says minister | Germany train axe attack: Refugee teenager 'had hand-drawn Isis flag' in bedroom, says minister |
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Police have found a "hand painted Isis flag" in the room of the 17-year-old Afghan refugee who assaulted several passengers in Germany, the Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann has said. | Police have found a "hand painted Isis flag" in the room of the 17-year-old Afghan refugee who assaulted several passengers in Germany, the Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann has said. |
About 20 people were injured, including two who are in a life-threatening condition, during the attack on train close to the city of Wurzburg in Bavaria on Monday night. | |
The attacker, who was later shot dead by police, reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) during the incident. He had moved from a home for unaccompanied minor refugees to a foster family just weeks ago, and had lived in Germany for two years. | |
Mr Herrmann told ZDF Morning Magazine the perpetrator had acted alone. | |
According to the Federal Police about 25 to 30 people had been sitting in the regional of Treuchtlingen to Würzburg. | |
Most victims were from China, visiting Germany as tourists. | |
Eyewitness Thomas Velten, who went to see what had happened after the train stopped, told the Main Post the carriage was "like a battlefield" with a large amount of blood. | |
Police said the attacker had used "blunt" and "slashing" weapons. These were said to have been an axe and a knife, according to local media. | |
In May, a 27-year-old German killed one person and injured several others in a similar knife attack at a railway station near Munich. | |
The suspect reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great”) as he started stabbing passers-by in the town of Grafing, to the south-east of the German city. |
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