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BREAKING: Knife-Wielding Attacker Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ Terrorizes a Zurich Train Station

May 28, 2026·2 min read

A man stabbed three people at a train station in Zurich Thursday morning while yelling “Allahu Akbar,” Arabic for “God is greatest,” as bystanders, including a group of kindergartners, scattered and fled.

The Kantonspolizei Zürich (Zurich Canton Police) issued a brief statement about the attack.

As a knife-wielding man runs through a train station shouting “Allahu Akbar,” commuters flee. (From a post on X)

“Shortly after 8:30 a.m., a man injured three people with a bladed weapon at Winterthur train station,” the police stated. “The suspected perpetrator was arrested by police. He is a 31-year-old Swiss national. The three injured individuals are Swiss nationals aged 28, 43, and 52. All three were taken to the hospital. The motive for the attack is under investigation.”

A witness describes the chaos and his emotions in the aftermath of the attack. (From a post on X)

The Zurich Canton Police said that also deployed to work on the case were Winterthur City Police, the SBB Transport Police, the Winterthur Rescue Service, Protection & Intervention Winterthur and Protection & Rescue Zurich.

While the motive remains under investigation, analysts point to the suspect’s shout of “Allahu Akbar” to speculate that it was an Islamist terror attack.