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Terror attack in Switzerland: Suspect Stabbed Two Women

epa05225734 Police officers indicate their presence at the Airport of Zurich, in Zurich-Kloten, Switzerland, 22 March 2016. All flights to brussels are canceled and security measures have been raised following the terror attacks at Brussels airport and on the metro system which claimed multiple lives and injured many others. EPA/ENNIO LEANZA

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New Delhi: After France now Switzerland has faced the terror activity in the nation. In Switzerland’s department store – a suspect attacked two women causing them injuries.

The local police arrested the suspect after the women were attacked in the city of Lugano and left with non-life threatening injuries.

Swiss federal police on its twitter said that “An attack presumably of terrorist motivation took place in the Italian-speaking city on Tuesday afternoon”

The federal prosecutors’ office said that “an alleged terrorist attack against several people in a department store” had taken place.

Police in the southern Ticino region, which includes Lugano, said a 28-year-old Swiss citizen living in the Lugano area had allegedly attacked two women, wounding one person in the neck with a sharp weapon.

The Ticino police in its statement said that “one of the victims sustained serious but not life-threatening injuries, while the other had minor injuries.”

A spokeswoman for the federal police – Catherine Maret also said that “the suspect was known to police and had appeared recently in police investigations with regard to terrorism — specifically jihadism.”

_Vinayak