Emaq news agency which is close to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group published a video of the attacker who introduces himself as Mohammad Riyad speaking in Pashto language, reports Khaama Press.
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Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack in Wuerzburg, southern Germany.
July 19-A teenage Afghan migrant armed with an ax and a knife slashed passengers aboard a regional train in southern Germany yesterday night, injuring four people before he was shot and killed by police as he fled, authorities said. Two of the victims are in serious condition. Officials have said the attacker came to Germany as an unaccompanied minor and registered as a refugee in June 2015 at Passau on the Austrian border.
He condemned the act as a “brutal act of indiscriminate violence”, saying further that “the background of the act must be further clarified”.
Mr De Maiziere said authorities are looking into the possibility that he might have been from Pakistan, but other evidence suggests he was from Afghanistan, including comments he made about a friend in Afghanistan having recently been killed – something authorities think may have prompted him to plan his attack.
“The motives of the teen are unknown”, Herrmann said.
The attack took place as the train was traveling between Treuchtlingen and Wurzburg.
Locals described the assailant, identified in mediareports as Riaz A, as “calm and even-keeled” and a “devoutMuslim who did not appear to be radical or a fanatic”, according to Joachim Herrmann, interior minister of Bavariastate. I have said it for a long time. He was shot as he fled by a special police unit that happened to be nearby.
Police found a hand-painted Islamic State flag in the refugee’s room at his foster family’s home, along with a letter he appeared to have written to his father, Reuters reported.
After the attack on the Hong Kong family, which also wounded the family’s 58-year-old mother and her daughter, Ahmadzai jumped off the train and wounded a German woman as she walked a dog.
In the Pashto writings found in his room, he expressed the hope that he would be able to “take revenge on the infidels and … go to heaven”, Koehler said, reading the translated statement aloud at a news conference.
German authorities said the video and letter were in all likelihood authentic.
Germany’s justice minister cautioned against jumping to hasty conclusions after the attack.
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De Maiziere, a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, defended the government’s migration policy, which came under strain previous year as the country took in more than 1 million migrants fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East.
