Six Suffer Burns And Knife Wounds In Attack On Swiss Train

Sky News:

Six people have been hurt, some seriously, after a man set a train carriage on fire in Switzerland and stabbed several passengers.

The alleged attacker, who is a Swiss citizen, was also injured when the train was set alight as it travelled in the far east of the country along the border with Liechtenstein.

A six-year-old child is among those who were injured as the train travelled between Buchs and Sennwald at 2.20pm local time (1.20pm UK time). 

In a statement, St Gallen Police added: “According to current information a 27-year-old Swiss man poured out a flammable liquid. He was also armed with at least one knife. The liquid caught fire.”

Several dozen passengers were on the train when the incident began, police added, and a “massive contingent” of police, firefighters, rescue helicopters and paramedics are at the scene.