One dead and four injured in a knife attack in Austria, police announced

A 23-year-old man is suspected of having stabbed five passers-by in the city center of Villach in southern Austria, Saturday February 15 around 4 p.m., according to the police, who arrested the suspect, A 23 -year -old Syrian asylum seeker. A 14 -year -old teenager died and four people were injured. “A man attacked passers -by at random with a knife”The police spokesman Rainer Dionisio told AFP.

The man was not known to the police and nothing is known for the moment of his motivations. Two men are seriously injured, and two others are more slightly, said Rainer Dionisio. The attack occurred in the afternoon in the center of this city, the capital of Carinthia. Witness of the attack, a meal delivery man launched his two wheels against the attacker, who was slightly injured and was able to be arrested “Just after the facts”according to the police spokesman.