Knife attacker in Germany kills two, including child

BERLIN: A knife attacker in Germany killed a two-year-old child and a man and seriously wounded two other people on Wednesday, said police, who arrested an Afghan suspect at the scene.

It is the latest in a series of deadly knife attacks to have shaken Germany in recent months, fuelling concerns over public safety. The stabbings happened in a public park in the centre of the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg at around 11:45 am (1045 GMT), police said. The attacker targeted a group of children from a daycare centre who were in the park, according to German media. “Two people were fatally injured,” police said, while another two were seriously hurt and receiving treatment in hospital.