An attacker wounded three people with a bladed weapon at a railway station near Zurich on Thursday morning, before being arrested, Swiss police said.
“Shortly after 8.30am, a man injured three people with a bladed weapon” at the station in the city of Winterthur, northeast of Zurich, police for Zurich canton said in a statement.
They said the suspected perpetrator – a 31-year-old Swiss man – had been arrested and that his “motive is under investigation”.
Attacks targeting random passers-by are rare in Switzerland.
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 “Allahu akbar!” (God is the greatest), while raising his right hand.
“I heard a man scream ‘Allahu akbar’ five or six times, in a very agitated manner,” one witness was quoted as saying by newspaper Blick.
