Two people have been killed and two others injured in a stabbing in the southern German state of Bavaria.
A man, described by police as a 28-year-old Afghan national, has been arrested following the knife attack in a park in Aschaffenburg on Wednesday.
A two-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man were killed, police said in a post on X.
Two seriously injured people were receiving hospital treatment.
Officers have said the motive for the attack is currently unclear.
The suspect was detained at the scene in Schoental park, an English-style garden in the Bavarian city, where the attack
occurred at around 10.45am.
Police said there was no indication of further suspects and no danger to the public, in a post on social media platform X.
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