{"id":25231,"date":"2016-05-10T03:04:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T03:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/germany-knife-attacker-kills-man-in-grafing\/"},"modified":"2016-05-10T03:04:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T03:04:20","slug":"germany-knife-attacker-kills-man-in-grafing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/germany-knife-attacker-kills-man-in-grafing\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany knife attacker kills man in Grafing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{One man was killed and three others wounded by a man wielding a knife east of Munich and police are investigating a possible Islamist connection.}<\/p>\n<p>The man attacked passers-by shortly before 05:00 (03:00 GMT) on Tuesday at Grafing station. One of those hurt was in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker was eventually overpowered by police. A man has been arrested.<br \/>\nSome witnesses said he shouted &#8220;Allahu akbar&#8221; (&#8220;God is great&#8221; in Arabic) but the motive for the attack is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Bavarian public radio reports that the Munich prosecutor has imposed a news blackout and that contradictory statements have emerged from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>An Upper Bavaria police spokesperson said that a &#8220;political motive&#8221; had certainly not been ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Grafing, Angelika Obermayr, told Sueddeutsche Zeitung that the suspect was a German national.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea that people get on an S-Bahn train on a beautiful morning or do their paper round and then become victims of a maniac is terrible,&#8221; she was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>One of the platforms at Grafing station has been cordoned off and commuter trains have been hit by delays.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12225 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_89646951_gettyimages-84029853.jpg\" alt=\"Police overpowered the attacker and a man is in custody\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{One man was killed and three others wounded by a man wielding a knife east of Munich and police are investigating a possible Islamist connection.} The man attacked passers-by shortly before 05:00 (03:00 GMT) on Tuesday at Grafing station. One of those hurt was in a serious condition. The attacker was eventually overpowered by police. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25231"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25231"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}