Man has been arrested by police following assault outside kebab shop
A woman has been killed and two others have been injured in a machete attack near Stuttgart in Germany.
Police have arrested a man in connection with the attack in the small city of Reutlingen in the south-west of the country.
German newspaper Bild reported the man struck outside a kebab shop, causing several witnesses to flee in panic.
An eyewitness told the tabloid: "The attacker was completely out of his mind. He ran with the machete behind a police patrol car."
He said a passing BMW managed to run him over and afterwards he "lay prostrate on the ground and didn't move".
The police has confirmed the attacker was a Syrian refugee but have not released his name. The motive for the attack is unclear.
Unconfirmed reports have said the female victim worked at the kebab shop.
It comes as Germany is on edge following two attacks in the past week.
A teenager went on a rampage in a Munich mall on Friday evening, killing nine, and an Afghan teenager attempted to attack train passengers with an axe in Bavaria before being shot dead by police last week.
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