The 17-year-old Afghan refugee, whose identity was not revealed by police, severely wounded four people in the train before he was shot dead by police.
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In the two-minute, 20-second video, entitled, Germany – Video Of the Islamic State Soldier Muhammad Riyad Who Carried Out the Wuerzburg Attack, the young man says he will slaughter infidels and avenge the deaths of men, women and children in Muslim countries.
Wuerzburg: German authorities have cast doubt on whether a teenager who went on an axe rampage on a Bavarian train was really an Afghan refugee, saying he might have been from Pakistan.
The 17-year-old, who shouted “Allahu akbar” (“God is great”) during the attack late on Monday, severely wounded four Hong Kong residents, then fled the train and injured a German woman before police shot him dead.
Aamaq released a video that purported to show the attacker, in which a young man waves a knife toward the camera and says “I will behead you with these knives and break your necks with these axes”.
Police are now said to be interviewing the foster family, as well as friends and coworkers, but it has been reported that a farewell letter, as well as a hand-painted ISIS flag were found in his bedroom.
As the flow of migrants has slowed this year, the anti-immigrant protests have faded, but the train attack seemed likely to raise concerns again.
“The motives of the teen are unknown”, Herrmann said.
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.
Her father and sister’s boyfriend are now in intensive care with serious head injuries.
Two victims were in critical condition.
He said he saw people crawl from the carriage and ask for a first-aid kit as other victims lay on the floor inside. That group allegedly also contained an experienced bomb maker, who traveled from Syria to Germany via Greece to assist in the construction of suicide vests and other explosives. Merkel’s chief of staff, Peter Altmaier, told ZDF television: “The security authorities expect that this video is in all likelihood authentic, and also the letter”.
Imam Arbab Ahmad, whose mosque in Wuerzburg lies about 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) from the scene of the attack, said he feared a backlash against Muslims after the attack.
A record 1.1 million people were let in to Germany previous year, with Syrians making up the largest group followed by Afghans.
German authorities sent him to an asylum home for unaccompanied minors in Ochsenfurt near Wuerzburg where he lived until two weeks ago when he was placed with a foster family living in the county of Wuerzburg.
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Ohlenschlager said at least two victims were suffering from “acute life-threatening” wounds, including the woman attacked outside the train.
