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Police cars in Lugano, Switzerland, Tuesday night
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The attack took place in a department store in Lugano. One of the victims was seriously injured and the second slightly. The attacker is in custody. According to the police, the authorities knew her.
meA woman with possible sympathy for the terrorist militia “Islamic State” (IS) attacked two women in a department store in Switzerland with a knife. She was arrested, police said Tuesday. According to the police, one of the victims was serious, but not fatal, one was slightly injured.
The attack took place in the afternoon in Lugano, in the canton of Ticino. According to the police, the perpetrator is a 28-year-old Swiss woman living in the Lugano region.
Police were following up on evidence that the woman had expressed sympathy for the Islamic State terrorist militia, journalists reported from an evening news conference in Lugano. According to the Ticino canton police commander Matteo Cocchi, the police knew her.
The Federal Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation. It was a “presumed attack for terrorist motives”, as the Federal Police announced to Fedpol.
