Man Knifes Three People Dead Shouting Allahu Akbar

A man has killed three people with a knife in a random stabbing incident while shouting Allahu Akbar.

Identified as a Somali migrant who entered Germany as a refugee in 2015 , he is 24, and  reportedly carried out the attack in the Wurzburg area on Friday.

Security men however said he was admitted to a psychiatric unit just a few days earlier

Police shot him in the leg and arrested but added that his life was not in danger and he was being questioned in hospital.

The knifeman killed at least three people and wounded at least five others in the street rampage at Barbarossaplatz in Wurzburg’s downtown area, according to local media reports.

The man, whose name was not released by police, had lived in the German city of Wuerzburg since 2015, the same year that Germany opened its borders to more than a million migrants and refugees fleeing war and poverty.

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The suspect had most recently lived in a shelter for the homeless in the city and apparently did not know the victims.

‘His condition had been noticed in recent months, including violent tendencies, and a few days ago he was put into compulsory psychiatric treatment,’ Herrmann said.

Investigators were looking for a motive behind the attack, but Herrmann told news agency DPA on Friday that he couldn’t rule out an Islamic extremist motive because one witness had reported hearing the suspect shout ‘Allahu akbar,’ Arabic for ‘God is great’.

‘That suggests a possible Islamist motive, and that is also part of the investigation,’ he added.

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People were seen leaving bouquets of flowers at a makeshift memorial which had been set up on Saturday at the scene in tribute to the victims of the deadly attack.

As investigators continue to try and pinpoint the suspect’s motive, police said there was no indication that there were any other attackers, and that the situation was now under control.

Videos posted on social media showed pedestrians surrounding the attacker and holding him at bay with chairs and sticks at Barbarossaplatz in Wurzburg on Friday.

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The videos matched the reported location of the attack, though it was not immediately possible to confirm when they had been made, a report in the Mail on Sunday said.