“There are three dead, five seriously injured and others injured,” said Bavaria’s interior minister Joachim Herrmann, adding, “it was not certain if the most seriously injured will survive”. Giving chaseThe suspect staged the attack in the city centre at around 5pm, striking at a household goods store, before hitting a bank. The deadliest Islamist attack in Germany happened in December 2016 when a jihadist rammed a truck into Berlin Christmas market killing 12 people. More recently, one man was killed and another seriously injured in a knife attack in the city of Dresden in October. Last August, six people were injured in a series of motorway accidents in Berlin in what prosecutors described as a suspected Islamist attack.

Source: The Local June 25, 2021 19:07 UTC