{"id":73435,"date":"2026-05-28T10:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/73435\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:34:14","slug":"man-shouting-allahu-akbar-stabs-four-at-swiss-train-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/73435\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shouting \u2018Allahu Akbar\u2019 stabs four at Swiss train station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content\">A man stabbed and wounded four people at a train station in the Swiss city of Winterthur on Thursday before being arrested, according to police and local media reports.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Swiss_police_1779961088921_1779961089056_447d9461-7fa8-4ee6-a95e-9a5d6d6215b9.jpg\" alt=\"Police said the motive behind the stabbing remains under investigation. (Representational image)\" title=\"Police said the motive behind the stabbing remains under investigation. (Representational image)\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" loading=\"eager\"\/>Police said the motive behind the stabbing remains under investigation. (Representational image)<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">The attack took place shortly after 8:30 a.m. at the Winterthur train station in northeastern Switzerland near Zurich. Zurich regional police said the suspect, a 31-year-old Swiss man, was taken into custody after the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reported that the attacker stabbed four men across three locations at the station. Witnesses quoted by local media said the suspect repeatedly shouted \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d during the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Eyewitnesses also said a group of school children had just passed the attacker before a teacher stepped in to protect them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">\u201cHe had a knife in his hand,\u201d a witness told Swiss outlet Blick. \u201cEveryone was screaming and running away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Police said the motive behind the stabbing remains under investigation. The conditions of the injured were not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Earlier, authorities confirmed that a major police operation was underway in Winterthur after reports emerged that at least one person had been stabbed at the city\u2019s train station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Winterthur, Switzerland\u2019s sixth-largest city, has a population of around 123,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man stabbed and wounded four people at a train station in the Swiss city of Winterthur on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[38799,38797,41,38796,17,38795,38798],"class_list":["post-73435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-major-police-operation","tag-stabbed-four-people","tag-swiss","tag-swiss-city","tag-switzerland","tag-winterthur-train-station","tag-zurich-regional-police"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116651758046923105","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}