Police say both the woman and her attacker died on Sunday, the day after the attack in the far east of the country, near the border with Liechtenstein.
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Later in the same month, a teenager armed with an axe and knife attacked passengers on another train in Germany, injuring a score of people.
The man who attacked passengers on a crowded Swiss train with a knife and burning liquid died of his wounds Sunday, as did one of his victims, a 34-year-old woman, Swiss police said.
“The question of motive remains”, police from Switzerland’s eastern Saint Gallen region said in a statement, stressing: “To date there is no indication this was a terrorist or politically motivated act”.
“According to the information we have for the time being, the 27-year-old Swiss man poured out a flammable liquid”.
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. Three others remain hospitalized with serious wounds.
Thus, a massive contingent of police St.Gallen Canton firefighters with three rescue helicopters, two emergency physicians, three ambulances and experts from the railway companies have arrived the scene.
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In addition to the child, a 17-year-old man, a 50-year-old man and three women – ages 17, 34 and 43 – were taken to various hospitals with injuries ranging from burns to stab wounds, police said. The attacker was shot and killed by police and all his victims survived.
