A man was arrested after injuring three people in a knife attack at a train station in the Swiss city of Winterthur near Zurich, local police said on Thursday.
Police said the attack happened shortly after 8:30 local time and the suspected perpetrator, a 31-year-old Swiss national, was arrested. The three victims of the attack were receiving hospital care, according to the police statement.
Swiss newspaper Blick said it had obtained a video showing a man running out of the station concourse shouting “Allahu Akbar,” an Arabic phrase meaning God is great.
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The paper cited an eyewitness as saying the man held a knife, while people around him were screaming and running away. The incident prompted a major police operation, it added.
Police said the man’s motive was being investigated.
This is a developing story.
