A man stabbed and wounded three people in what authorities described as an “act of terror\u201d at the train station in the Swiss city of Winterthur on Thursday before being arrested.<\/p>\n
The attack took place shortly before 8:30 am. The suspect, who was arrested five minutes after emergency services were alerted, is a 31-year-old Swiss-Turkish dual national who lives in Winterthur, regional police chief Marius Weyermann said.<\/p>\n
“He had come to authorities’ attention in 2015 for distributing propaganda of the Daesh group,” Weyermann added.<\/p>\n
In recent days, he was taken to a psychiatric facility after calling the police emergency number and making “confused comments,\u201d but he left on Wednesday after a doctor determined that he wasn’t dangerous.<\/p>\n
Three Swiss men, ages 28, 43 and 52, were wounded in Thursday’s attack. The first two were discharged or were about to be released from hospitals by mid-afternoon, Weyermann said.<\/p>\n
The oldest was still hospitalised after an operation on a thigh injury.
Weyermann said investigators believe the man acted alone.<\/p>\n
Mario Fehr, the Zurich region’s top security official, described the attack as “an evil act of terror.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the suspect was born in Switzerland and gained Swiss citizenship in 2009, and apparently had spent much of the last two years in Turkey.<\/p>\n
Winterthur has about 123,000 residents and is located in northeastern Switzerland, near the country’s biggest city, Zurich.<\/p>\n
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