Switzerland: 8 people hurt during axe attack in small town
BERLIN — Eight people were hurt, at least one of them seriously, during an axe attack in a small Swiss town that ended with the suspect’s arrest, police said Monday.
Officials said concerns about the suspected assailant, a 17-year-old Latvian boy who was arrested about an hour after the attack started on Sunday evening in the northeastern town of Flums, had previously been reported to authorities. They had concluded that he didn’t pose a serious risk.
The assailant first attacked a couple in a central square in Flums Sunday evening, Sigi Rueegg, the deputy police chief of St. Gallen canton (state) police told reporters.
Their eight-month-old baby fell out of a pram but wasn’t attacked. Passers-by tried to intervene and were themselves hurt.