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One of six people injured when a man started a fire on a train carriage in Switzerland and stabbed passengers has died of her injuries, police said on Sunday. One of six people injured when a man started a fire and stabbed passengers on a train in Switzerland has died of her injuries, police have said.
Regional police in Switzerland’s eastern canton of St Gallen said a 34-year-old woman who had been in critical condition since the attack on Saturday afternoon died of her injuries on Sunday morning. Police in Switzerland’s eastern canton of St Gallen said a 34-year-old woman, who had been in critical condition since the attack on Saturday afternoon, died of her injuries on Sunday morning.
A 27-year-old Swiss national used flammable liquid to start a fire on a moving train in eastern Switzerland before stabbing passengers. A 27-year-old Swiss national is said to have used flammable liquid to start a fire on a moving train near Salez, in eastern Switzerland, before stabbing people.
The attack took place near Salez station on a train running between Buchs and Sennwald near Switzerland’s eastern border with Liechtenstein and Austria. Among the victims were two men aged 17 and 50, two women aged 17 and 43, and a six-year-old girl, who suffered burns and stab wounds. One of the women and the child were in a serious condition, police said.
The victims, who in addition to the 34-year-old woman included two men aged 17 and 50, two women aged 17 and 43 and a six-year-old girl, suffered burns and stab wounds. One of the women and the child were in serious condition, police said. Dozens of people were on the train at the time of the incident. The attacker, who suffered serious burns, remained in a critical condition, police spokesman Bruno Metzger said.
Dozens of people were on the train at the time of the attack. The woman who died had a large amount of flammable liquid poured over her, leading to speculation that she may have been the main target of the attack, but Metzger said this could not be confirmed.
The attacker, who also suffered serious burns, remains in critical condition, police spokesman Bruno Metzger said. Hanspeter Kruesi, another police spokesman, said the attack did not appear to have been directed at a single person.
The woman who died had had a large amount of the flammable liquid poured over her, leading to speculation she might have been the main target of the attack. It remained unclear whether the attacker knew any of the victims, he said.
Metzger said he could not confirm that and another police spokesman, Hanspeter Kruesi, said late on Saturday it did not appear that the attack was directed at a single person.
He said it remained unclear if the attacker knew any of the victims.