18 July 2016: "Germany axe attack: Assault on train in Wuerzburg"

[The Bread Guy]

We'll keep it here in "Current Events" for now, and can move it as info unfolds - again, remember initial report caveats (attached).  This, from the BBC ...

A teenage Afghan refugee armed with an axe and knife injured four people on a train in southern Germany before being shot dead by police, officials say.

Three people were seriously hurt and one suffered minor injuries in the attack in Wuerzburg, police said.

Initial reports said up to 20 people had been injured but it was later revealed that at least 14 had been treated for shock.

The motive for the attack is not yet clear.

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said the attacker was a 17-year-old Afghan refugee who had been living in the nearby town of Ochsenfurt.

He told public broadcaster ARD that the teenager appeared to have travelled to Germany as an unaccompanied minor ...

More from Google News here.

 

[jollyjacktar]

The Daily Mail is reporting he won't be a repeat offender.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3696410/Man-attacks-21-people-AXE-train-Germany-shot-police.html

 

[Altair]

Cologne and now this. Merkel is going to be hurting.

 

[George Wallace]

Cologne and now this. Merkel is going to be hurting.

After Koln, she nearly had all her party up in arms to have her removed.  We may yet see her ousted.

 

[hugh19]

The cheekiness in me wants to know if it was an assault axe. 

 

[McG]

http://www.cutlerycorner.net/m/productdetail/?itemnumber=CCN-37119  ?

 

[AbdullahD]

http://www.cutlerycorner.net/m/productdetail/?itemnumber=CCN-37119  ?

You know I clicked that thinking it was a news update.... only saw the ccn amd thought it was CNN and well... now im on a watch list lol

 

[The Bread Guy]

OK, then ...

A hand-drawn Islamic State flag was found in the room of the axe-wielding Afghan refugee who attacked passengers on a train in southern Germany, a senior state official said on Tuesday.

The 17-year-old severely wounded four passengers before police shot him dead late on Monday, days after a Tunisian delivery man ploughed a 19-tonne truck into crowds of revelers in the southern French city of Nice, killing 84.

The case is likely to deepen worries about so-called "lone wolf" attacks in Europe and could put political pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who welcomed hundreds of thousands of migrants to Germany over the past year.

Bavarian state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said it was still too early to say whether the Afghan youth was a member of Islamic State, which has claimed responsibility for the French attack, or any other militant group.

Two of those injured in the attacks were in a critical condition and several of the injured included members of a Chinese family, he added, without giving any further details ...

 

[The Bread Guy]

And another (indirect?) claim of responsibility by You-Know-Who (source:  French journalist)

 

[jollyjacktar]

Looks as if there might be a stronger connection between the attacker and Daesh than previously thought.  They posted a video of him making threats with a knife etc, after the attack.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3696410/Man-attacks-21-people-AXE-train-Germany-shot-police.html

 

[Colin Parkinson]

The thing is that ISIS promotes individual Jihad, as opposed to AQ more centralized control format. The existence of ISIS is as much a motivator as it words, much less it's deeds.