The suspect has been identified as a 27-year-old "Swiss national." As usual, the authorities are being initially coy about what everyone wants to know.
From the Daily Mail:
From the Daily Mail:
Knifeman injures seven Swiss train passengers including a six-year-old child when he sets carriage on fire and goes on a stabbing rampage
Seven people have been injured after a man attacked passengers on a train in Switzerland with 'fire and a knife'.
- Swiss police confirm seven people have been injured after attack on train
- A man reportedly assaulted passengers with 'fire and a knife'
- Officers confirmed the 27-year-old offender stabbed a child, six
- Swiss Interior Minister 'holding emergency meeting' over incident
Swiss police have confirmed the train has been sealed off an it is understood the county's interior minister is holding an emergency meeting over the incident.
The man set the train carriage on fire using a flammable liquid and also stabbed passengers, including a six-year-old child, police said.
The attack happened near Salez-Sennwald Train Station on the line between Buchs and Sennwald at around 2.20pm.
The offender, a 27-year-old Swiss citizen, carried out the attack on a train travelling in Switzerland's far east, along its border with Liechtenstein, and was also injured, regional police in St Gallen said in a statement.
The statement said: 'According to current information a 27-year-old Swiss man poured out a flammable liquid. He was also armed with at least one knife. The liquid caught fire.'
Reports in Switzerland suggest a 17-year-old girl and two women aged 34 and 43 were injured while a 17-year-old boy and 50-year-old man were also hurt.
The carriage was reportedly left covered in blood as the wounded were treated at the scene before being taken to hospital.Read the rest here.
Another Syrian refugee granted citizenship a couple of months ago? Yeah, I think I'll wait for . . . the rest of the story.
ReplyDeleteWhere is Paul Harvey when the world needs him? RIP.
Ironically the coyness only intensifies the impact. Truth always seeks to be known and has its own ways of revealing itself.
ReplyDeleteIn hope that everyone will have forgotten it by Monday.
ReplyDeleteProbably Swiss in the same way the London stabber was Norwegian, i. e. a Somali who had lived in Norway briefly. The police spokesman couldn't get the words "mentally deranged" out of his mouth fast enough.
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