A CHILD has been killed and four other people have been injured after a man went on a random stabbing spree attacking passersby in Austria.
The suspect, said to be a Syrian asylum seeker, was arrested near the central square of Villach town.
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Google mapsThe attack took place near the central square of Villach town[/caption]
The victim is said to be a 14-year-old boy.
Images of the arrest show the suspect smiling with his index finger raised as police officers surround him with weapons.
A 42-year-old man who works for a food delivery company witnessed the incident from his car.
He drove toward the suspect and helped to prevent things from getting worse, police spokesperson Rainer Dionisio told Austria’s public broadcaster ORF.
Police said it wasn’t clear whether the suspect acted on his own and therefore continued to search for potential further suspects.
Regional Governor Peter Kaiser described the attack as an “unimaginable atrocity”.
It comes after a mum and her child tragically died today from serious injuries after a suspected Islamist terrorist rammed his Mini Cooper into a crowd in Munich.
The woman, 37, and her two-year-old daughter were among the 39 injured in the “shocking attack” said to be carried out by a rejected Afghan asylum seeker.
The Mini Cooper is said to have “sped up” and ploughed into the back of around 1,500 Verdi demonstrators – a Berlin-based German trade union – on Seidlstrasse in Munich on Thursday.
The suspected attack came just hours before the Munich Security Conference that started on Friday, with US Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arriving at the summit to speak.
Police said the suspect is a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who, the region’s interior minister added, was known to cops in relation to drug and theft incidents.
News website Spiegel says the suspect is a Kabul-born man named Farhad Noori.
He is said to have posted Islamist content on social media before the heinous incident.
The suspected attack is thought not to be connected with the Munich Security Conference.
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