{"id":3495,"date":"2026-05-28T16:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/three-stabbed-by-knifeman-shouting-allahu-akbar-at-swiss-station\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:26:09","slug":"three-stabbed-by-knifeman-shouting-allahu-akbar-at-swiss-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/three-stabbed-by-knifeman-shouting-allahu-akbar-at-swiss-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Three stabbed by knifeman shouting &#8216;Allahu Akbar&#8217; at Swiss station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect, identified as a 31-year-old Swiss national, carried out the attack just after 8:30 a.m. at Winterthur train station outside Zurich, according to <em>New York Post<\/em>. Zurich Cantonal Police confirmed the assailant used a bladed weapon to stab three victims during the morning rush.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eyewitnesses<\/strong> reported that a group of schoolchildren had just passed the knife-wielding man when a teacher intervened to shield the vulnerable minors from the unfolding violence.<\/p>\n<p><em>Everyone was screaming and running away,<\/em> one witness told Blick, describing the chaos as the attacker brandished his weapon in the crowded station.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage captured by Swiss politician <strong>Nils Fiechter<\/strong> and shared on social media shows the disheveled suspect running down the street with one hand raised, repeatedly shouting &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; as terrified children were rushed to safety by their teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived at the scene within minutes and arrested the suspect at the train station before transporting him to a nearby police facility across the street.<\/p>\n<p>Another witness, a student passing through the station at the time, recounted being less than 100 feet from the attack when it occurred. The student told Blick they heard a man shouting &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; five or six times in what was described as an extremely emotional and agitated manner. The witness admitted to getting goosebumps when reflecting on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The three victims\u2014Swiss men aged 28, 43, and 52\u2014were transported to hospital for treatment following the assault, police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities established a large perimeter around the station to conduct their investigation but have not yet disclosed a motive for the daylight attack.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 31-year-old Swiss man shouting &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; stabbed three men at a Winterthur train station near Zurich Thursday morning before being arrested by police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":3494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[3569,2442,3591,3590,3588,3589],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-knife-attack","tag-switzerland","tag-terrorism-suspected","tag-train-station-stabbing","tag-winterthur","tag-zurich","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}