4 Chinese injured in ax attack on train

Four Hong Kong citizens were injured, including two seriously, in a Monday ax-and-knife attack on a regional train near Wuerzburg in the southern German state of Bavaria, the Chinese Consulate General in Munich confirmed on Tuesday.

The four victims are from one family. A source said that the father was 62, the mother 58, the daughter in her twenties and the son 17. Accompanying the family was the daughter's 31-year-old boyfriend who was severely injured in the attack as was the father.

A 17-year-old Afghan refugee wielding ax and knife wounded a total of five passengers on Monday night, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told German ZDF public television on Tuesday morning. Most victims were Chinese tourists, among whom two were critically wounded.