A 34-year-old woman died Sunday from wounds suffered after a man attacked her and four others with a knife and a burning liquid aboard a crowded train in Switzerland.
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In a statement on Facebook, St. Gallen police said the 27-year-old suspect was also injured in the fire Saturday afternoon.
Since the attack, the assailant and one victim – the 34-year-old woman – has died. Three others remain hospitalized with serious wounds. Three victims and the suspect remained in hospital on Sunday morning.
They said they had found no indication of a politically or terrorist motivated act.
This latest attack represents the latest in a series of attacks taking place on public transport facilities in Europe in recent times.
St. Gallen police said the motive was not clear.
One woman and the attacker were “very seriously injured”, Kruesi told AFP, adding that both their lives were in danger.
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.
Police said video from the train showed the attacker pouring out flammable liquids.
One of those injured was not a passenger, but a man on the platform at Salez station, where the train stopped when the smoke detector went off.
“The motive remains unclear”, police said in a statement. Six people and the attacker were wounded.
Two men aged 17 and 50, two women aged 17 and 43 and a six-year-old girl had burns and stab wounds, according to police.
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Earlier the Swiss-German newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reported the St Gallen police saying that the perpetrator had a typically Swiss-sounding name and was from a neighbouring Swiss canton. Police in Switzerland say a Swiss man set a fire and stabbed people on a.
