Swiss police say attacker injures three with knife in Winterthur


FRANKFURT, May ⁠28 (Reuters) - A man was arrested ⁠after injuring three people in ‌a knife attack at a train station in the Swiss city of Winterthur near ​Zurich, local police said ⁠on Thursday.

Police said ⁠the attack happened shortly after 0630 ⁠GMT ‌and the suspected perpetrator 31-year-old Swiss national was ⁠arrested. The three victims of the ​attack ‌were receiving hospital care, according to ⁠the ​police statement.

Swiss newspaper Blick said it had obtained a video showing ⁠a man running out of ​the station concourse shouting "Allahu Akbar", an Arabic phrase meaning God is great.

The ⁠paper cited an eyewitness as saying the man held a knife, while people around himwere screaming ​and running away. ⁠The incident prompted a major police ​operation, it added.

Police said ‌the man's motive ​was being investigated.

(Reporting by Ludwig Burger, editing by John Revill)

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