A 34-year-old woman has died and two girls are in a serious condition a day after being attacked on a Swiss train by a man armed with a knife and flammable fluid, police said.
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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. The girls, aged 6 and 17 years old respectively, were in serious condition, as was the suspected assailant injured by the fire he set in the train. A man set a train carriage in Switzerland on fire using a flammable liquid and stabbed passengers, injuring six people including a six-year-old child, police said.
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Swiss police searched his home after the Saturday afternoon attack on the train as it neared the station in Salez, close to the Liechtenstein border.
The train stands at the station after a man attacked other passengers aboard the train at Salez, Switzerland, on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016. They said the suspect was not known to police prior to the attack.
Both a woman and the attacker were in critical condition, according to Swiss broadcaster SRF, citing the St Gallen police.
Metzger of the St Gallen cantonal police said the attack could be a “crime of passion”, adding: ‘A terrorism background still seems very, very far-fetched’.
The knifeman in Swiss train acted with no motive, said Saint Gallen regional police spokesman Bruno Metzger told the local St.Galler Tagblatt daily.
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The motive of an attacker isn’t still clear, but Switzerland is afraid of the wave of violence in Europe in recent months. He was shot dead by police as he left the train.
