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A 41-year-old man and a two-year-old boy were killed and two other people severely wounded in a knife attack in the German city of Aschaffenburg on Wednesday, police said.

A 28-year-old man from Afghanistan was arrested close to the crime scene, they said on social media platform X, without indicating a motive.


The stabbings happened in a public park in the centre of the Bavarian city at around 11:45am (1045 GMT).

‘Two people were fatally injured,’ police said, while ‘two se