Germany machete attack: Syrian refugee kills 'pregnant' woman and injures two others in Reutlingen

Jamie Bullen25 July 2016

A Syrian refugee armed with a machete has killed a woman and injured a man and another woman during another shocking attack in Germany.

Police said they were called just before 4.30pm after the 21-year-old man young man launched a savage assault on the woman, who was reportedly pregnant, outside a kebab house in Reutlingen, near Stuttgart.

Police arrested the suspect and said the man is known to police.

Witnesses said he was having an argument with the woman before he attacked her.

Police arresting a 21-year-old man after a woman was killed in a machete attack
Reuters

The motive for the attack remains unknown at this stage.

Police spokesman Björn Reusch said the attack bore no hallmarks of a terrorist threat.

He said: "According to current knowledge, it is a lone operator. A threat to the population in and around Reutlingen in the present state is not likely.

Police provided a heavy emergency response to the incident in Reutlingen
AP

An eyewitness told German newspaper Bild the attacker attempted to hide behind a police car before he was apprehended on the street.

Pictures from the scene show a man in handcuffs with a weapon just yards away from him in front of horrified passers-by.

They said: "The perpetrator was completely out of his mind. He ran with his machete behind a patrol car."

Shocking: The latest attack comes after a gunman opened fire at a shopping centre in Munich and a teenager wounded five people on a train
AP

The witness said a BMW driver ran the suspect over before adding, "he lay prostrate on the ground and did not move".

Police confirmed the suspect was a Syrian refugee while the female victim is believed to have worked in the kebab house.

The attack comes two days after a gunman opened fire at a shopping centre in Munich, killing nine people before he shot himself.

On Monday, an Afghan teenager armed with an axe and a knife injured four people on a train in Wurzburg and another person as he fled the scene before he was shot dead by police.

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