The violent attack left two dead, including a 2 year-old boy, and three injured in the Bavarian city. The suspect is a former Afghan asylum seeker with a history of psychiatric problems and violence who said over a month ago that he would leave Germany voluntarily.

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.

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.

The motives for the stabbing are still unclear, with police asking for witnesses to submit evidence. A stabbing in the southern German city of Aschaffenburg has left two people dead on Wednesday, local police said.

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.

A two-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man were killed on Wednesday in a knife attack in Germany's Aschaffenburg. A 28-year-old man from Afghanistan has been arrested by the police.

Two people, including a 2-year-old boy, have been killed and three others were injured in a stabbing attack in Bavaria.

Police detain a 28-year-old Afghan after the attack in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg.

A 28-year-old Afghan man is in police custody after attacking a group of kindergarteners in the German city of Aschaffenburg, killing two people, including a 2-year-old.

A tragic Knife Aattack unfolded in Aschaffenburg, Germany, where a 28-year-old Afghan man stabbed a two-year-old child and a 41-year-old man to death in a public park. Two others were seriously wounded.