2016 Würzburg train attack
| Würzburg train attack | |
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| Part of Terrorism in Germany (Wave of Terror in Europe and Spillover of the Syrian Civil War) | |
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| Location | Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany |
| Coordinates | 49°45′22″N 9°58′14″E / 49.75611°N 9.97061°ECoordinates: 49°45′22″N 9°58′14″E / 49.75611°N 9.97061°E |
| Date | 18 July 2016 21:00 CEST (UTC+2) |
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Attack type
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Mass stabbing, hacking, terrorism |
| Weapons | Hatchet, knife |
| Deaths | 1 (the perpetrator) |
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Non-fatal injuries
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5 |
| Assailants | Riaz Khan Ahmadzai aka Muhammad Riyad |
On 18 July 2016, a 17-year-old asylum seeker injured four people, two critically, with a knife and hatchet on a train near Würzburg in Germany. A fifth person was injured outside. The state office of criminal investigations called it a terrorist attack with an Islamist religious motive. The attacker's Islamic State instructor "ordered" him "to use an axe rather than a knife in his attack." In a martyrdom video, the attacker blamed unspecified infidels trespassing against and murdering men, women and children, as well as leaders and Muslim citizens who did not object to this.
The attack happened around 21:00 CEST on a train traveling between Treuchtlingen and Würzburg. The victims in the train (a husband, wife, their daughter and her boyfriend) were from Hong Kong, and the fifth victim, attacked outside the train, was a local woman. Fourteen witnesses were treated for shock. The attacker tried to flee and was shot dead by Special Deployment Commandos after they confronted him and he tried to attack them with the hatchet.
German authorities later discovered evidence showing that the perpetrator, identified as Riaz Khan Ahmadzai, was in contact with a suspected Islamic State member in Saudi Arabia and had originally been asked to drive a car into a crowd of people. Ahmadzai declined this suggestion as he was not able to drive the car. Instead, he told his contact that he would plan and carry out a train attack.
Late on 18 July 2016, a youth with a hatchet and a knife injured four Hong Kongers on a train in Würzburg, Germany. A fifth person, a woman who was walking her dog, was "hit with the axe twice in the face" and seriously injured. The perpetrator was located by the police about 500 m (1,600 ft) from the train. As they approached him, he tried to attack and was shot dead. He reportedly yelled "Allahu Akbar!" during the attack, according to Oliver Platzer, a spokesman for the Bavarian Interior Ministry. Public prosecutor Erik Ohlenschlagern said police heard the attacker call out "Allahu Akbar!" in a recorded emergency call from a witness' mobile phone.
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