GENEVA (AP) \u2014 A man stabbed and wounded three people in what authorities described as an \u201cact 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 a.m. 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\u2019 attention in 2015 for distributing propaganda of the Islamic State group, Weyermann added. In recent days, he was taken to a psychiatric facility after calling the police emergency number and making \u201cconfused comments,\u201d but he left on Wednesday after a doctor determined that he wasn\u2019t dangerous.<\/p>\n
Three Swiss men, ages 28, 43 and 52, were wounded in Thursday\u2019s attack. The first two were discharged or were about to be released from hospitals by mid-afternoon, Weyermann said. The oldest was still hospitalized after an operation on a thigh injury.<\/p>\n
Weyermann said investigators believe the man acted alone.<\/p>\n
Mario Fehr, the Zurich region\u2019s top security official, described the attack as \u201can evil act of terror.\u201d 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\u2019s biggest city, Zurich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GENEVA (AP) \u2014 A man stabbed and wounded three people in what authorities described as an \u201cact of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1655,197,2783,38959,10320,38957,38956,38958,17,5587,13390,3279,1046,51],"class_list":["post-73725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-crime","tag-europe","tag-general-news","tag-islamic-state-group","tag-law-enforcement","tag-mario-fehr","tag-marius-weyermann","tag-misinformation","tag-switzerland","tag-switzerland-government","tag-terrorism","tag-violence","tag-world-news","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116653389480559658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73725","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=73725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}