A hand-drawn
Islamic State flag was found in the room of the axe-wielding Afghan
refugee who attacked passengers on a train in southern Germany, a senior
state official said on Tuesday.
The
17-year-old severely wounded four passengers before police shot him
dead late on Monday, days after a Tunisian delivery man plowed a
19-tonne truck into crowds of revelers in the southern French city of
Nice, killing 84.
The case is
likely to deepen worries about so-called “lone wolf” attacks in Europe
and could put political pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who
welcomed hundreds of thousands of migrants to Germany over the past
year.
Bavarian state Interior
Minister Joachim Herrmann said it was still too early to say whether the
Afghan youth was a member of Islamic State, which has claimed
responsibility for the French attack, or any other militant group.
Two
of those injured in the attacks were in a critical condition and
several of the injured included members of a Chinese family, he added,
without giving any further details.
