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 killed, including a toddler, police and the state health minister said.

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.

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.