Man stabs 3 people at Swiss train station
AP News • • world
Key Points:
- A 31-year-old Swiss-Turkish man stabbed and wounded three people at Winterthur train station in Switzerland in an attack described as an "act of terror."
- The suspect was arrested five minutes after the attack and had previously come to authorities' attention in 2015 for distributing Islamic State propaganda.
- He had recently been in a psychiatric facility but was released after being deemed not dangerous, and investigators believe he acted alone.
- The victims, three Swiss men aged 28, 43, and 52, sustained injuries with two discharged from the hospital and one still recovering from surgery.
- Winterthur, near Zurich, is a city of about 123,000 residents, and regional officials condemned the attack as an "evil act of terror."