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.
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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. Police in Switzerland say a Swiss man set a fire and stabbed people on a train in the country’s northeast, wounding six people some seriously as well as himself.
SEVEN people have been injured after a man carrying a knife stormed a train and started a fire in Switzerland.
According to a video of the attack evaluated by police, the assailant acted alone, attacking passengers on the train between Buchs and Sennwald with his knife and then with a burning liquid, which is now being analyzed by a police forensics team.
Five people were stabbed or suffered burns during the attack, which occurred as the train neared Salez station in St Gallen.
Police in the canton of St. Gallen said the wounded, including a child, were taken to a local hospital.
“To date there is no indication this was a terrorist or politically motivated act”. It’s surprisingly, but the the the 27-year-old Swiss knifeman has no criminal records, neither links with the ISIS.
The woman who died had been doused with a lot of the flammable liquid, leading to speculation she might have been the target.
“This was not directed concretely at one person”, he said, adding that it remained unclear whether the attacker knew any of his victims.
Spokesman of the Swiss Police Hanspeter Kruesi informed on details of an incident in train.
“His intervention probably prevented worse”, Kruesi told the Blick daily. The attacker lives in a canton neighbouring Saint Gallen in Switzerland.
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Some 90 rescue workers took part in Saturday’s operation, including police, firefighters, ambulances and three rescue helicopters, police said.
