GETTY Grmany has suffered a series of recent attacks

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The 22-year-old threatened passengers on Saturday night and tried to stab two young women, but nobody was hurt. Initially, the man was put in a separate section of the train after acting aggressively to the train conductor. When the train arrived to the station of Sottrum, he changed train carriages, pulled out a knife and began threatening other passengers.

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At the following train station, many people left the train in a panic fearing for their lives

At the following train station, many people left the train in a panic fearing for their lives. The attacker also got off and eventually handed himself in to the police. It is thought that the attacker is mentally ill and was drunk during the incident.

GETTY The 18-year-old killed nine people during the Munich attack

One week ago, a teenage Afghan refugee armed with an axe and knife injured four people on a train in southern Germany. Three people were seriously hurt and another was injured. The attacker was a 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who had arrived in Germany as an unaccompanied minor. On Friday, July 23, David Sonboly, 18, shot dead nine people before killing himself in a shooting in Munich.

GETTY Munich's gunman shot himself following the attack