Police have killed a man after he allegedly injured two people during a knife attack Thursday afternoon in the southern German city of Ansbach.
A 30-year-old man attacked several bystanders in the vicinity of the Ansbach train station, slightly injuring two people, police said in a statement.
After the first attack, the local police were alerted and, upon arriving at the scene, the officers shot and fatally wounded the suspected attacker as he approached, supposedly to attack them.
Testimonies of the incident, collected by the police, revealed that the man had shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great”, an expression of faith in Islam widely used in the Muslim world) several times during the attack.
Investigating authorities are investigating whether the incident could be related to Islamic extremism or a terrorist attack, Ansbach police said in a statement.
On Sunday, a series of multiple stabbings killed 10 people and injured 18 others in two indigenous communities of the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby town of Weldon in Canada’s northwestern province of Saskatchewan.
The second suspect in the attack, Myles Sanderson, 32, died Thursday from self-inflicted injuries after being arrested, Canadian authorities said.
Two days earlier, police had located the body of the other person involved in the stabbings, brother Damien Sanderson, 31, on the Indian reservation.
Police did not reveal a possible motive for the attacks, but an indigenous leader in Saskatchewan linked them to a wave of violence and drug use in the community.
Source: TSF
