Man stabs 3 people at Swiss train station in what authorities call an ‘act of terror’
NBC News • • world
Key Points:
- A 31-year-old Swiss-Turkish man stabbed and wounded three people at the Winterthur train station in Switzerland in an attack described as an "act of terror."
- The suspect was arrested five minutes after the attack, and authorities believe he acted alone.
- The attacker had previously come to police attention in 2015 for distributing Islamic State propaganda and was recently released from a psychiatric facility.
- The three victims, Swiss men aged 28, 43, and 52, sustained injuries with two being discharged by midafternoon, while the oldest remained hospitalized after surgery.
- Winterthur, a city near Zurich with about 123,000 residents, was the site of this incident, which regional officials condemned as an evil act of terror.