Swiss police said on Sunday that there was no indication that an attacker’s knife rampage on a train – which injured six passengers – was an act of terror.
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Last month in neighboring Germany, a 17-year-old refugee from Afghanistan used an ax and a knife to wound four tourists on a train, and stabbed a woman as he fled.
Police said the attacker, a 27-year-old Swiss national, died of the injuries he received during the attack.
A man on Saturday set fire to flammable liquid on a train travelling between Buchs and Sennwald in Switzerland, injuring seven people including the man himself, the Switzerland’s St. Gallen cantonal police reported.
The girls, aged 6 and 17-years-old are in serious condition.
One passenger, who tried to help extinguish the flames, described seeing a woman on fire and an injured child. “The motive remains unclear”, they said in a statement.
Police are also ruling out the possibility that the train attack was an act of terrorism or otherwise politically or religiously motivated.
He was subsequently treated for smoke inhalation and burns, Kruesi said. “We have not found any” police representatives said in a statement.
Both a woman and the attacker were in critical condition, according to Swiss broadcaster SRF, citing the St Gallen police.
But Mr Kruesi said on Saturday it did not appear that the attack was directed at a single person.
The attack occurred just weeks after an Afghan man attacked passengers on a train with an axe in the neighbouring German state of Bavaria.
Late yesterday, police of Swiss had searched the home of the suspected attacker.
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Several dozen passengers were on the train when the incident began, officials added, and a “massive contingent” of police, firefighters, rescue helicopters and paramedics went to the scene.
