A Somali man killed three people and left five others seriously injured after a knife rampage in the southern German city of Würzburg, Bavarian officials said.
Two of the four Hong Kong tourists wounded in an axe attack on a German train will be discharged from hospital in coming days, the university clinic treating them said Thursday.
Trains are a soft spot in the German security system which terrorists are likely to target unless necessary steps are taken, federal investigators warn.
A specialist in psychiatric care for migrants has said that there is no known link between trauma and radicalization, after an adolescent refugee attacked train passengers with an axe.
Refugees rallied in Würzburg against Islamist terrorism, carrying banners that read 'Not in my name' in response to Monday night's axe attack by a man who arrived in the country as an asylum seeker.
Local authorities are calling for classes on Islam to be brought in at schools across the country after a radicalized Muslim youth attacked passengers on a train with an axe on Monday.
The adolescent who attacked passengers on a Bavarian train with an axe and knife on Monday was a 17-year-old refugee who had arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Germany a year ago.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Chief of Staff Peter Altmaier said on Tuesday evening in response to the Würzburg axe attack that refugees are no more likely than anyone else to commit terrorist atrocities.
German authorities have cast doubt on whether a teenager who went on an axe rampage on a Bavarian train was really an Afghan refugee, saying Wednesday he might have been from Pakistan.
Since a 17-year-old Afghan attacked passengers on a train near Würzburg on Monday evening events have developed rapidly. We condense the story into its most important points.
Frothing up passions: barista Daniel Gerlach pours dazzling images into cappuccinos and cafe lattes. After taking the German throne, he is now shooting for the World Latte Art Championship.
A German woman who mistook her pepper spray for deodorant and doused herself with it in a nightclub toilet, injuring two women and forcing the club to evacuate, could face negligent bodily harm charges.
A middle-aged couple were believed killed late on Sunday night in an apparent gas explosion at their home in Bavaria just hours before they were due to be evicted.
German basketball star Dirk Nowitzki received a hero's welcome upon his return home to Würzburg, Bavaria on Tuesday. Dirk got the cheers, but one super-fan earned a seat of honour for helping to galvanize thousands to attend the lavish event.
