One dead, three wounded in Munich knife attack

A police officer takes pictures at the train station in Grafing, Germany. A man attacked passengers with a knife at a train station in the Munich area in southern Germany early on Tuesday, leaving four people with life-threatening injuries. Michaela Rehle / ReutersShow less

MUNICH // A man killed one person and wounded three others in a knife attack at a German railway station on Tuesday that prosecutors said had “an apparent Islamist motive”.

Police said the man had slashed four people around 5am at the station in the town of Grafing, east of Munich.

A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office later said one man had died from wounds suffered in the attack.

He said the 27-year-old “assailant made remarks at the scene of the crime that indicate a political motive - apparently an Islamist motive”, the spokesman said.

“We are still determining what the exact remarks were.”

Local media reported that witnesses had said the young man had yelled “Allahu akbar” during the attack.

The police spokesman said “a political background cannot be ruled out”, adding that the man arrested was “not very cooperative”.

Last August, two German-speaking men claiming to belong to ISIL threatened Germany with attacks in an online execution video, urging their “brothers and sisters” in Germany and Austria to commit attacks against “unbelievers” at home.

* Agence France-Presse