Several dozen passengers were on the train when the incident began, officials added, and a “massive contingent” of police, firefighters, rescue helicopters and paramedics went to the scene.
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Geneva – A man set a train carriage in Switzerland on fire using a flammable liquid and stabbed passengers on Saturday, injuring six people, including a six-year-old child, police said. A 17-year-old youth and 50-year-old man wounded in the attack have been treated and released, he said.
A 34-year-old woman who was injured in an attack by a knifeman on a Swiss train has died in hospital, police say.
It has been reported that the attacker targeted one woman in particular by dousing her in the liquid.
According to a BBC report, a total of seven individuals were wounded in the attack with four others including the suspect now in critical condition.
A total of seven individuals were wounded in the attack with four others including the suspect now in critical condition.
Police spokesman Hans-Peter Kruesi told The Associated Press authorities have not been able to interrogate the 27-year-old suspect, a Swiss man from a neighboring canton, due to his condition.
Five people were stabbed or suffered burns during an attack by a Swiss man on a train nearing Salez station in St Gallen in northeast Switzerland.
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