'˜20 injured by axeman on German train'

MORE THAN 20 people in Germany have been injured after a man with an axe went on the rampage on a train, German media reported.

A police operation including a helicopter was under way in Heidingsfeld, a part of the city of Wurzburg in southern Germany, on Monday night.

Local media wrote that 21 people had been injured and a suspect appeared to have been shot.

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The train line between Wurzburg-Heidingsfeld and Ochsenfurt was closed.

The German news agency DPA reported that the police said some of the victims’ injuries were life-threatening.

It said police would not comment on reports that the suspect had been shot.

The Main Post newspaper reported that a major police operation was under way in the area but there no clues yet to the identioty of the attacker.