Afghan man stabs and kills two in Germany, including a child

A knife attacker in Germany killed a two-year-old child and a man and seriously wounded two others Wednesday, say police, who arrested an Afghan suspect at the scene.

The stabbings happened in a public park in the center of the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg at around 11:45 a.m. (1045 GMT), they say.

They are the latest in a series of deadly knife attacks to have shaken Germany in recent months, fueling concerns over public safety.

The attacker targeted a group of children from a daycare center who were in the park, German media reports. “Two people were fatally injured,” police say, while another two were seriously hurt and receiving treatment in the hospital.

The suspect, a 28-year-old man from Afghanistan, was arrested “in the immediate vicinity of the crime scene.”

Police say investigations into the “background of the crime” are ongoing, without indicating a possible motive for the attack.

German media reports that the man is said to have had psychological issues and received treatment several times.