Police have arrested an Iraqi-born man and are investigating a possible Islamic extremist motive after five passengers received knife wounds on a regional train in western Germany, authorities said Friday.
The train was traveling near the western city of Aachen Friday morning when a man began attacking fellow passengers “randomly and arbitrarily,” state interior minister Herbert Reul said, according to the news agency dpa.
There were approximately 270 passengers on the train, Reul said. A police officer who happened to be among the passengers overpowered the 31-year-old suspect with the help of two other passengers, state police confirmed.
Reul described the incident as “a gruesome crime that was stopped in an enormous act of courage.”
The 31-year-old, who stabbed passengers with a knife in a regional express near Herzogenrath, had been listed by the authorities as a so-called test case of Islamism in 2017. This is what Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) said in Düsseldorf on Friday. At the time, the man had been living in a refugee home and had changed considerably, including growing a beard. The refugee shelter had then informed the authorities. It is now necessary to determine whether there really was an Islamist motive for the current crime. According to Reul, the man, who lives in North Rhine-Westphalia, was born in Iraq. His current nationality is not yet known.
In total, five people were wounded, Reul said. Police confirmed the casualties were being treated at local hospitals and that none of them was in critical condition.
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