Six people have been injured after a man set fire to a train carriage in Switzerland and stabbed several passengers on board.
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Police said in the statement that the attacker, armed with at least one knife, poured flammable liquids on the train.
The victims included two men aged 17 and 50, three women aged 17, 34 and 43 and a six-year-old child. In December 2015, a 33-year-old Swiss man broke into his neighbors’ house in Rupperswil and killed four people before setting the house on fire, an incident that shocked the country.
The assailant was also among the seven people injured, police say.
It did not spell out whether the man was under arrest or provide any information on a possible motive for the attack, but did say a criminal inquiry was under way.
Some of the injured are reported to be in serious condition.
The train stands near the station after a man attacked other passengers aboard the train at Salez.
A police spokesperson told NBC News that it is unclear whether the attack was terror-related.
The attack occurred shortly before the train reached the station Salez, near the border to Lichtenstein. In July, there were two attacks by migrants in the southern state of Bavaria – an axe rampage on a train and a suicide bombing.
German reports have claimed that Zurich police called the attack a “crime of passion”.
Belgium’s capital Brussels was also struck in March this year by twin bombings targeting at the city’s airport and metro.
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The train was heavily damaged by the fire, and regional authorities have opened an investigation into the incident.
