The parents of the attacker are still in Afghanistan, and police are trying to investigate his background, Herrmann said.
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Lothar Koehler said the passage read “Pray for me that I can take revenge on these infidels and pray for me that I will go to heaven”.
Police fatally shot the attacker as he tried to escape.
Prosecutor Erik Ohlenschlager said the suspect hacked and slashed at the passengers “with great force on their bodies and heads”.
The attack on the train in Bavaria left five people injured.
The woman’s being treated in a hospital for life-threatening injuries. The Islamic State group claimed the attack, but authorities say the asylum-seeker appears to have been self-radicalized and had no direct link to the extremists.
Joachim Herrmann, the interior minister of the state of Bavaria, told German TV the flag had been found among the teenager’s belongings in his room in his foster home in the nearby town of Ochsenfurt.
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a train in Germany that injured at least five people.
Dpa reported that the attacker injured the 62-year-old father, the 58-year-old mother, their adult daughter and her boyfriend.
An ax-wielding man who attacked several people on a train in southern Germany has been shot dead by police, according to Lt.
Though the Islamic State group claimed responsibility through its Aamaq news agency, Herrmann said the suspect, whose identity has not been released, had written notes in his native Pashto that indicated he may have been self-radicalized and there was “no indication” he was directly connected to the IS group.
He said investigators were still looking into the evidence found in the teenager’s room, saying it could be possible that the notes included a farewell letter to his father.
Leung’s office said Hong Kong and Chinese officials were in touch with the German embassy to follow up on the case, and representatives were en route to visit the family.
Amaq had earlier said the assailant who seriously wounded four tourists from Hong Kong wielding an axe and a knife on Monday “was one of the fighters of the Islamic State”.
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The attacker, who came to Germany as an unaccompanied minor two years ago, fled into the town of Heidingsfeld after the emergency brake was pulled. He lived in a home for young refugees until two weeks ago when he was placed with a foster family in the Wuerzburg area.
