{"id":27033,"date":"2016-07-19T01:55:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T01:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/afghan-refugee-shot-dead-after-train-attack-in\/"},"modified":"2016-07-19T01:56:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T01:56:15","slug":"afghan-refugee-shot-dead-after-train-attack-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/afghan-refugee-shot-dead-after-train-attack-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan refugee shot dead after train attack in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Multiple people wounded after 17-year-old stabs and hacks passengers with an axe and knife before being shot dead.}<\/p>\n

German police have shot dead a young Afghan refugee after he attacked passengers on a train with an axe and a knife, seriously wounding three people.<\/p>\n

Several others were also hurt in the attack on a train on Monday night near the southern city of Wuerzburg, police said, adding the teenager was killed as he tried to flee.<\/p>\n

Joachim Herrmann, the interior minister of Bavaria state, said the attacker was a 17-year-old Afghan who had lived in nearby Ochsenfurt.<\/p>\n

“He suddenly attacked passengers with a knife and an axe, critically injuring several. Some of them may now be fighting for their lives,” Herrmann said.<\/p>\n

Among those injured were four people from Hong Kong, according to the South China Morning Post. <\/p>\n

Al Jazeera’s Dominic Kane, reporting from Berlin, said the refugee “came to Germany as an unaccompanied refugee” and had “been in the care of a welfare organisation”, citing the interior ministry in Bavaria. <\/p>\n

He added the authorities “are looking into what may have been said [by the assailant] during the incident”.<\/p>\n

The alleged attacker’s motivation, however, remained unclear, Kane said. <\/p>\n

The incident is likely to deepen worries about so-called “lone wolf” attacks in Europe, and could put political pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.<\/p>\n

Bavaria is governed by the Christian Social Union (CSU), sister party to Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats.<\/p>\n

Merkel’s popularity has rebounded recently but the attack in Bavaria is likely to revive political tensions.<\/p>\n

Germany welcomed about one million refugees in 2015, including thousands of unaccompanied minors. Many were fleeing war in countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

The attack happened around 1915 GMT on the train, which runs between Treuchlingen and Wuerzburg in Bavaria.<\/p>\n

In May, a mentally-unstable 27-year-old man carried out a similar knife attack on a train in southern Germany, killing one person and injuring three others. He is being held in a psychiatric hospital.<\/p>\n

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