MAN KILLS 1, WOUNDS 2 IN GERMANY MACHETE ATTACK

A man armed with a machete killed a woman and injured two others Sunday in the southwest German town of Reutlingen.

There were no indications it was a terrorist attack, but police did not say what the motive was.

The suspect, a 21-year-old Syrian man seeking asylum in Germany who was known to police, was having an argument with the woman before the attack, police spokesman Bjoern Reusch told the Associated Press.

The suspect was arrested after the attack, which occurred outside a bus station.

The attacker acted alone, and police did not consider residents of Reutlingen — a city of about 110,000 near Stuttgart — in danger, Agence France-Presse reported.

The German newspaper Bild reported that the woman who was killed worked at a nearby kebab stand.

Sunday’s attack followed two other attacks in southern Germany last week. Friday, nine people were killed in a shooting spree at a mall in Munich. Monday, a 17year-old Afghan refugee armed with an ax injured five people on a train before he was killed by police. — Steve Reilly