Forensics teams examine bloody footprints on the platform (Picture: AP)

One man has died and several people have been injured after a man went on a knife rampage through a train station in Germany.

The man is alleged to have attacked the passengers at the station in Grafing, a town south east of Munich, southern Germany.

Girl, 15, shuts down neo-Nazi protesters making ‘bigoted’ speechesThree men are being treated for life threatening injuries following the attack at 5am (3am GMT) at Grafing Bahnhof station.

Police are looking into allegations that the man shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is great) during the attack, Bayerischer Rundfunk reported.


A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said the 27-year-old ‘assailant made remarks at the scene of the crime that indicate a political motive – apparently an Islamist motive.



‘We are still determining what the exact remarks were.’

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Police at the scene of the stabbings in Grafing, Germany (Picture: Reuters)

Local media reported that witnesses had said the young man had yelled ‘Allahu akbar’ (‘God is greatest’) during the attack.

The police spokesman said ‘a political background cannot be ruled out,’ adding that the man arrested was ‘not very cooperative’.

Last August, two German-speaking jihadists claiming to belong to the Islamic State jihadist group threatened Germany with attacks in an online execution video, urging their ‘brothers and sisters’ in Germany and Austria to commit attacks against ‘unbelievers’ at home.

Police spokesman Michaela Grob said one man had been arrested and authorities were working to identify him.

Germany, which is playing a supporting role in the fight against Islamic State, has not suffered a major attack by Islamist militants the like of which neighbouring France and Belgium have experienced.

However, German security services are on alert and ministers have repeatedly warned of a possible attack.

Over 800 home-grown radicals have left Germany to join jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq and about 260 have returned.

Germany has also been a transit country for militants who carried out attacks in Belgium this year and Paris last year. There are concerns that some of the 1 million migrants who arrived in the country last year have slipped off officials’ radar.