Man injures four people in attack on German train, police say


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  • Thursday, 03 Jul 2025

MUNICH (Reuters) -A man attacked and injured four people on Thursday on a high-speed train in southern Germany around 70 kilometres (43.5 miles) from the Austrian border before being arrested, police said.

The ICE 91 train was carrying around 500 passengers from Hamburg in northern Germany to the Austrian capital Vienna. The man was arrested and the rail line shut down, a police statement said.

"Today at around 1:55 p.m., (1155 GMT) a man injured several people with dangerous objects on an ICE train heading towards Vienna shortly before Strasskirchen," a statement from police in the southern state of Bavaria said.

The attacker was also injured, police said.

(Reporting by Alexander Hübner; Writing by Matthias Williams; Editing by Sharon Singleton)

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