Four people were seriously injured after a 17-year-old Afghan refugee armed with an ax and a knife went on the rampage on a train, German media reported late Monday.
The attacker was shot dead as he attacked police after trying to flee, according to media reports.
The incident was a “probable” Islamist attack, a Bavarian interior minister spokesperson told AFP, adding that the assailant had shouted “Allahu akbar.”
The attack took place at around 9:15 p.m. on a train that runs between Treuchlingen and the city of Würzburg in Bavaria.
Joachim Herrmann, Bavaria’s interior minister, said the assailant had arrived in Germany as an unaccompanied minor. He had initially lived in a shelter, then with a foster family.
In addition to the four people seriously injured, another is suffering from light injuries and 14 people are being treated for shock, AFP reports.
The incident happened days after the July 14 terror attack in the southern French city of Nice last week, in which 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel used a truck to mow down people leaving a Bastille Day fireworks display, killing 84.