German forensic investigators and police officers next to a local train at the railway station in Grafing near Munich, Germany, May 10, 2016 | Andreas Gebert/EPA One killed, three injured in knife attack near Munich: prosecutors Bavarian Interior Minister said attack could be linked to “drug addiction,” after earlier reports the male suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he attacked passers-by.

One person died and three were wounded in a knife attack at a train station near Munich Tuesday morning, Bavarian prosecutors said.

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told reporters it was possible the attack arose from "confusion due to drug addiction.”

Police earlier said they were investigating witness accounts that the suspect, who was detained, shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great") as he stabbed passers-by in the town of Grafing, southeast of Munich, just before 5 a.m.

The suspect is a 27-year-old German national, Munich public prosecutors and the Bavarian state criminal investigation office said in a joint statement. The Bavarian criminal office later said the man was from the central German state of Hesse.

A 56-year-old man died of wounds sustained in the attack, which prosecutors said may have begun in a train, and three other men, aged 58, 55 and 43, were injured. Authorities earlier reported the man killed was 50 years old.

“The assailant made remarks at the scene of the crime that indicate a political motivation -- apparently an Islamist motive," a prosecutor's spokesman said, according to AFP. "We are still determining what the exact remarks were.”

"The idea that on a beautiful morning people are taking the train and then become victims of a maniac, is terrible," Grafing Mayor Angelika Obermayr said. "I am most grateful for the police, doctors, paramedics and our firefighters who were quickly on the scene.”

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