Man attacks Swiss train passengers with fire, knife, injures 6

A man set a train carriage in Switzerland on fire using a flammable liquid and also stabbed passengers today, injuring six people, including a six-year-old child, police said.

The man, a 27-year-old Swiss citizen, carried out the attack on a train travelling in Switzerland's far east, along its border with Liechtenstein, and was also injured, regional police in St Gallen said in a statement.