A man attacked a person for the first time at Zofingen station. He then walked around and attacked several more people, seemingly at random, before retreating into a house.
A man armed with a knife injured several people, some of them seriously, in the city of Zofingen, in northern Switzerland, before being arrested, the police of the canton of Aargau reported this Wednesday.
The identity and motivation of the attacker was not revealed, nor the number of injuries, some of them seriously. immediately by the police, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
The man first attacked a person at the station in this city of about 12,000 inhabitants, located about sixty kilometers south of Basel and the same distance west of Zurich.
After, walked and attacked several other people, seemingly at randombefore retreating to a home, according to the police news release.
After approximately two hours, and after negotiations with a specialized team, the man was detained by the police. The attacker was also injured and received medical attention.the police stressed.
The regional daily Aargauer Zeitung published the testimony of a man whose pregnant wife was allegedly attacked “with a metal object.” The woman “was injured in the face and has some swelling, but she is fine under the circumstances,” her husband told the newspaper.
The victim was taken to the hospital in Aarau, about twenty kilometers from Zofingen. Police launched an appeal for witnesses and asked the public to send them videos and photographs for investigation purposes.
Source: Observadora
