{"id":73495,"date":"2026-05-28T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/73495\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:06:11","slug":"3-wounded-in-blade-attack-at-swiss-railway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/73495\/","title":{"rendered":"3 wounded in blade attack at Swiss railway station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">An attacker wounded three people with a bladed weapon at a railway station near Zurich on Thursday morning, before being arrested, Swiss police said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cShortly after 8.30am, a man injured three people with a bladed weapon\u201d at the station in the city of Winterthur, northeast of Zurich, police for Zurich canton said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They said the suspected perpetrator \u2013 a 31-year-old Swiss man \u2013 had been arrested and that his \u201cmotive is under investigation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Attacks targeting random passers-by are rare in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police vehicle parked in front of the central railway station where a man wounded three people with a bladed weapon in Winterthur, near Zurich on Thursday. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d4dd7074-dac2-4c6f-b128-a3da6c98ec4c_f14fb7e5.jpg\" title=\"A police vehicle parked in front of the central railway station where a man wounded three people with a bladed weapon in Winterthur, near Zurich on Thursday. Photo: AFP\"\/>A police vehicle parked in front of the central railway station where a man wounded three people with a bladed weapon in Winterthur, near Zurich on Thursday. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Images broadcast by several Swiss media outlets and on social media showed a man with long dark hair and a full beard running in front of the station shouting \u201cAllahu akbar!\u201d (God is the greatest), while raising his right hand.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI heard a man scream \u2018Allahu akbar\u2019 five or six times, in a very agitated manner,\u201d one witness was quoted as saying by newspaper Blick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An attacker wounded three people with a bladed weapon at a railway station near Zurich on Thursday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[1380,38825,38824,7099,38826,13236,17,38781,38795,51,38823,38822],"class_list":["post-73495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-afp","tag-allahu-akbar","tag-god-is-the-greatest","tag-swiss-federal-railways","tag-swiss-media-outlets","tag-swiss-police","tag-switzerland","tag-winterthur","tag-winterthur-train-station","tag-zurich","tag-zurich-canton","tag-zurich-cantonal-police"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116652119611830709","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73495","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=73495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}