Police at the scene of the attack<\/p>\n
A teenage boy has been killed and four more people wounded in a knife attack in southern Austria Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n
A 14-year-old boy died and four other people were injured in a\u00a0knife attack<\/a>\u00a0in southern\u00a0Austria<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday, police said, adding they have arrested a 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker.<\/p>\n “A man randomly attacked passers-by with a knife,” police spokesman Rainer Dionisio told AFP of the incident in the city of Villach.<\/p>\n “One victim, a 14-year-old boy, died,” he added.<\/p>\n Two other men suffered serious injuries, while another two men were lightly injured, Dionisio added.<\/p>\n The incident happened on Saturday just before 4 pm local time (1500 GMT) in the centre of the city in Carinthia province.<\/p>\n A food delivery rider saw the attack and rammed his vehicle into the attacker, who was lightly injured and was arrested “right after the attack”, according to Dionisio.<\/p>\n The man under arrest is a Syrian asylum seeker with a valid residence permit and without a criminal record according to preliminary information, he added.<\/p>\n The youngest victim was the 14-year-old, while the oldest is 32 years old, he said.<\/p>\n The attack comes just two days after\u00a0a car-ramming attack<\/a>\u00a0in the city of Munich in neighbouring\u00a0Germany<\/a>.<\/p>\n A two-year-old girl and her mother died Saturday from injuries suffered in that attack which left 37 others injured.<\/p>\n