Multiple people injured after man slashes passengers on German train

[Teh One Who Knocks]

FOX News and The Associated Press


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DEVELOPING: Multiple people were injured after a man went on a slashing spree Monday on a train in Germany before he was shot to death by police, officials said.

Authorities in the southern German town of Wuerzburg told DPA news agency that the man attacked passengers on a regional train in Bavaria with "blunt and slashing" weapons and several people possibly had life-threatening injuries.

German police spokesman Fabien Hench told Sky News the attacker was shot dead by police as he tried to flee the scene. The Bavarian Interior Ministry confirmed media reports that police had shot and killed the attacker.

Hench added that three of the victims are in a serious condition, while another suffered minor injuries.

Authorities would not comment on German media reports that the man had attacked passengers with an axe.

The train line between Wurzburg-Heidingsfeld and Ochsenfurt is closed as a result of the attack.

The rampage comes amid heightened security in Europe, days after 84 people were killed when a man who pledged allegiance to ISIS rammed a truck into a crowd in Nice, France after the conclusion of a Bastille Day fireworks show.

[Godfather]

So this is a daily thing now eh? Nice.

[deebakes]

:axe:

[Godfather]

Saw this comment online regarding this event and really dug the message. All this PC shit isn't just irritating, it's so harmful. Short of deporting people by the truckload, this might be the most insightful idea of a solution I've seen recently:




"This won't end until Europe understands extremism isn't the only regressive part of Islamic culture, there is a significant swath of fundamental Islam that's terrible. Not all Islam is bad, not all refugees are bad--in fact, most are great. But until people start to understand that Islam, like any other religion, needs to be critiqued because it has cultural elements that, while not violent, are terrible (Fundamental Islam)? The breeding ground for this kind of terror will continue.

It's not even that the governments here need to do anything (Unless they have "anti-hate" speech laws, then they need to repeal them)...What needs to happen is people themselves simply need to be comfortable lampooning Islam with the same level of vitriol and satire we do, say, Catholicism. And before people say we do! I don't think we'll be seeing naked feminists rubbing the Qu'ran on their asses while asking for Islam to be destroyed anytime soon. (Video of this being done to Catholics and it barely registered which is a good thing! -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM-wxU86v8g&index=8&list=FLSsDP406O6Ck72JJb8LKEWA)

Hell, South Park can't even show Muhammad on TV without censorship, and Charlie Hebdo was called Islamophobic and racist for their Islamic satire AFTER they were killed for it.

That has to end. Verbal critique and satire need to be embraced. If you are worried about moderates becoming extremists because people meanly made fun of their religion with words and pictures? Then you need to understand, those people were never moderates to begin with. They were fundamentalists who were teetering on the edge of violence and never exposed because we, as a people, have chosen to ignore their terrible views because of a kind of sick compromise in the hopes they don't hurt people.

The future MUST belong to people who DO slander the prophet. It is the only secular future that is viable. A future where everyone realizes that slandering some religious figure should never, ever, rise to the level of violence (And people need to be socialized toward that by seeing it, so they learn tolerance toward opposing, even vitriolic, views), nor should it rise to the level of the government considering the words/slander as incitement (This socializes people the opposite way), nor should it get you labelled as a racist and shut out of social circles (It's an ideology, NOT race, it's not an immutable feature someone can't change)--no ideology should be above criticism, from Capitalism, to Catholicism, to Islam."

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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[Teh One Who Knocks]

The Associated Press


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BERLIN – The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a train in Germany that injured at least five people.

The claim was posted on the group's Aamaq news agency on Tuesday.

It came hours after a 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker attacked passengers with an ax and knife on a train near Wuerzburg-Heidingsfeld on Monday night, before he was shot and killed by a special police unit which happened to be nearby.

The statement says the attacker was "a member of the Islamic State" group and carried out the attack in response to the militant group's calls to attack countries that are members of the anti-IS coalition.

"Even during the first emergency call, a witness said that the attacker was shouting 'Allahu akbar' on the train," Joachim Herrmann, Bavaria's interior minister, told ZDF Television. "Also, during the search of his room, a hand-painted IS flag was found."

Herrmann said that it was too early to draw conclusions about the attacker's motive.

The attacker, who was not identified by the authorities, came to Germany two years ago as an unaccompanied minor, and applied for asylum in March of last year. He lived in a home for young refugees until two weeks ago when he was placed with a foster family in the Wuerzburg area. Investigators were talking to the foster family, witnesses and the attacker's friends.

The attacker injured at least four people on the train near Wuerzburg-Heidingsfeld on Monday night, and also a woman outside the train as he fled.

Witnesses said the interior of the train was covered with blood and looked "like a slaughterhouse," the German news agency dpa reported. About 30 passengers were on the train at the time; more than a dozen were treated for shock.

The attacker jumped off the train after someone pulled the emergency cord and got about 500 meters (yards) away before the police special unit chased him. As police drew near, the assailant started attacking the officers and was shot, dpa reported, quoting Herrmann.

On Tuesday morning, officers could be seen removing the attacker's body from the scene.

Herrmann said at least two victims — members of a Chinese tourist family — were in critical condition.

German officials did not identify the victims, but Hong Kong's immigration department said Tuesday that among those injured in the attack were four members of a family of five from the southern Chinese city. The department said it is working to provide assistance to the family but gave no details of their injuries.

Dpa reported that the attacker injured the 62-year-old father, the 58-year-old mother, their adult daughter and her boyfriend. The teenage son was not injured. The father and the boyfriend had tried to defend the other family members, dpa said.

Germany last year registered more than 1 million asylum seekers entering the country, including more than 150,000 Afghans.

In May, a man stabbed four people at a German train station in a random early-morning attack in Grafing near Munich. One man later died. The attacker, a German citizen, also shouted "Allahu akbar" during the attack, but authorities found no evidence of links to Islamic extremists. He was later sent to a psychiatric hospital.

[FBD]

he shoulted allah ackbar too, so of course that makes this automatically 100% legit