A 34-year-old woman died Sunday from wounds suffered after a man attacked her and four others with a knife and a burning liquid aboard a crowded train in Switzerland.
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The assailant, a 27-year-old Swiss national, used flammable liquid to start the fire on a moving train in eastern Switzerland at about 2:20 pm (1220 GMT) on Saturday before stabbing passengers.
They said they had found no indication of a politically or terrorist motivated act.
Police said video from the train showed the attacker pouring out flammable liquids.
Three victims were still in the hospital on Sunday morning, including two girls – a six- and 17-year-old – who remain in serious condition. “The motive remains unclear”, they said in a statement.
He was hurt after rushing in to pull the attacker – who was on fire – from the train, police said. Five people were stabbed or burned during the attack by the Swiss man on a train nearing Salez station in St Gallen in north-east Switzerland on Saturday afternoon. In this August 13, 2016 picture a man cleans the platform as the train stands at the station following an attack onboard, in Salez, Switzerland. Police in Switzerland say a Swiss man set a fire and stabbed people on a tr.
Earlier the Swiss-German newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reported the St Gallen police saying that the perpetrator had a typically Swiss-sounding name and was from a neighbouring Swiss canton. Police in Switzerland say a Swiss man s.
He did not comment on whether the attacker’s religious affiliation was known to police, who on Saturday evening searched his home in one of the cantons bordering Saint Gallen.
One of those injured was not a passenger, but a man on the platform at Salez station, where the train stopped when the smoke detector went off. He was then shot and killed by police.
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Last year, a heavily armed gunman opened fire on a high-speed Amsterdam to Paris train but was overpowered by two young American servicemen and their companion.
