Islamic State flag 'found in the room of suspected German train attack'

A hand-drawn ISIL flag was found in he room of an Afghan teenager who attacked passengers on a train in nothern Bavaria, Germany, with an axe on Monday evening. Five people were injured.

Police shot dead the suspect, a 17-year-old Afghan refugee, as he attempted to flee the scene. The assault in Wurzburg was the latest suspected terror attack to shock Europe following the atrocity in Nice last Thursday.

The attacker was said to have been carrying "weapons for slashing and cutting", according to German media reports, including an axe.

The Bavarian interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, said on Tuesday morning that the attacker apparently shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) as he stabbed people.

Herrmann told ZDF television, the alleged attacker came to Germany two years ago as an unaccompanied minor, and applied for asylum in March. He had lived at first in a shelter untill two weeks ago, then more recently with a foster family in nearby Ochsenfurt.

Three people were "seriously injured," 14 people were left in shock, and one other person suffered minor injuries. Among those injured, were four member of a Hong Kong family.

"After passengers managed to alert the driver, the train was stopped in the Heidingsfeld district of Wurzburg. The perpetrator was able to leave the train, police left in pursuit and as part of this pursuit, they shot the attacker and killed him," said a spokesman for the Wurzburg police.

An eyewitness who lives next to the train station told DPA news agency, that the train which was carrying about 25 people looked "like a slaughterhouse" after the attack, with blood covering the floor.

The man who declined to give his name, said he saw people crawling out of the train and asked for first-aid while the other victims lying on the floor inside.

No further details about the circumstances of the teenager's death, and the police refused to reveal the motives behind the attack.

"At this time everything is possible," the spokesman said.

The Wurzburg attack was on a train travelling from the Bavarian town of Treuchtlingen to Wurzburg, which is about 60 miles northwest of Nuremberg. The line was closed.

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The Telegraph News