A man stabbed two people and was killed by police in Germany

In a small town in southern Germany tonight, a man with a knife injured two people before being shot dead by police investigating a possible “Islamic or terrorist context”.

Local police said the 30-year-old man attacked pedestrians “with at least one knife” near the station in the Bavarian town of Ansbach, near Nuremberg. Two people were injured.

The attacker, who “attacked the police” during the intervention of the security forces, opened fire and killed himself, according to the police statement.

Police, who were investigating “whether the crime was placed in an Islamist or terrorist context”, said that “the man shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ several times”, eyewitnesses said.