A violent attack occurred on a high-speed train in southern Germany when a 20-year-old Syrian man injured four passengers using a hammer and an axe. The victims, also Syrian nationals aged 15, 24, and 51, suffered minor injuries. The suspect was subdued by other passengers and arrested. The motive remains unclear, and investigations into the suspect's background are ongoing, revealing he was a legally traveling refugee from Austria. The rail operator expressed dismay over the incident, which involved approximately 500 passengers.
"At around 1:55 pm today a man on an ICE train travelling towards Vienna injured several people with dangerous objects," police said.
The suspect "apparently had a hammer and an axe" at the time of the attack, but investigators were not yet sure "to what extent the two objects were used simultaneously or independently," police spokesman Guenther Tomaschko told AFP.
According to Bavarian interior minister Joachim Herrmann, the suspect "arrived in Austria as a refugee" and "was legally travelling" after obtaining a residence permit in that country.
Rail operator Deutsche Bahn said it was "appalled" by the "violent attack" on the train, which had been travelling from Hamburg.
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