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A man wielding a machete has killed a woman and wounded two other people in the southern German city of Reutlingen before being arrested, the Bild newspaper has reported. A 21-year-old Syrian refugee killed a woman with a machete and injured two other people on Sunday before being arrested in the southern German city of Reutlingen, police have said.
German police said that the man was a Syrian asylum-seeker who had been involved in previous incidents. The asylum-seeking Syrian man had been involved in previous incidents causing injuries to other people, a police spokesman added.
More details to follow ... The assailant was apparently acting alone, the police official said. “There is no danger to anyone else at this time,” he said.
The spokesman said that witnesses said the man was having an argument with the woman before he attacked her at about 4:30p.m. Police say the motive behind the attack is still not clear.
The spokesman had no immediate information on when the man arrived in Germany, or when the previous incidents took place.
It was the third act of violence against civilians in Germany in 10 days.
On Friday, an 18-year-old Iranian-German who was obsessed with mass killings shot dead nine people in Munich before turning his gun on himself as police approached.
On July 18, a 17-year-old youth who had sought asylum in Germany was shot dead by police after wounding four people from Hong Kong, some of them severely, with an axe on a train and injuring a local resident near the city of Wuerzburg.