And with just one month to go until Germany's federal elections, the incident has further enflamed an already heated immigration debate in the country. Friedrich Merz, leader of the center-right opposition Christian Democrats and favorite to become Germany's next chancellor,

An Afghan man suspected of carrying out a knife attack in Aschaffenburg, southern Germany, which claimed the lives of two individuals and injured two others, had been slated for deportation to Bulgaria.

A rejected Afghan asylum-seeker killed two people and left several others injured in a stabbing in Aschaffenburg, Germany.

A knife attack that killed two people in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg has left a local community in grief, with the city's mayor warning of a "spiral of violence and hatred." An Afghan suspect is in custody.

Germany's opposition leader has vowed to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up deportations if he is elected as chancellor next month, as a knife attack by a rejected asylum-seeker spills over into an election campaign in which he is the front-runner.

The deportation of the suspect in Wednesday's deadly stabbing in the southern German city of Aschaffenburg failed due to a missed deadline, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann has said. Hermann said Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) rejected the Afghan national's application for asylum in June 2023 and ordered him to be deported to Bulgaria under EU migration rules.

After the fatal knife attack in Bavaria on a kindergarten group by a rejected asylum seeker, politicians in Germany have been vowing to toughen up migration rules with the CDU leader promising a crackdown if he becomes chancellor.

A deadly knife attack on a kindergarten group in Germany, where an Afghan man was arrested at the scene, reignited a bitter immigration debate Thursday, a month before elections.

Germany is working intensively to deport more criminals to Afghanistan, said Interior Minister Nancy Faeser in Berlin on Thursday, a day after an Afghan asylum seeker was arrested for a deadly knife attack.

A 28-year-old man from Afghanistan was arrested following a knife attack on Wednesday in a park in the German city of Aschaffenburg in which two people were