The attack took place at a busy train station
Keystone / Gaetan Bally
A man has attacked and injured three people with a knife at a train station in the Swiss city of Winterthur.
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Canton Zurich police later arrested the suspected attacker, a 31-year-old Swiss national, who had fled the scene.
The motive for the attack is still unclear and is the subject of an ongoing investigation. But according to several eyewitnesses who spoke to the newspaper Blick, the man shouted “Allahu Akbar.”
The attack took place shortly before 8.30am, leaving three people, aged 28, 43 and 52, with injuries. All three were taken to hospital, according to a police statement.
One victim suffered serious injuries and the other two were more moderately wounded.
The train station area was cordoned off for a while but is now re-opened. Zurich cantonal police will give further information at a later time.
Adapted from German by AI/mga
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