Man Kills Woman with Machete in Reutlingen, Germany

Crime | July 24, 2016, Sunday // 20:10
Bulgaria: Man Kills Woman with Machete in Reutlingen, Germany Photo by EPA/BGNES

A man attacked and killed a woman with a machete in Reutlingen, in southwestern Germany, Bild newspaper reported on
Sunday.

At least two other people were injured.

Police said a man, identified as a 21-year-old asylum-seeker from Syria, had been arrested at the scene, according to German media reports.

The motive for the attack is yet unknown.

The incident comes just two days after a German-Iranian lone gunman shot dead nine people and injured 16 in Munich before killing himself.

Reutlingen, a city near Stuttgart in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, is a two-hour drive from Wurzburg, where a teenage migrant who had registered as an Afghan refugee, injured five people with an axe on Monday.

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