1 dead, 2 hurt in Germany machete attack

A woman was killed and two people injured by a Syrian asylum-seeker armed with a machete on Sunday in the southwest German city of Reutlingen, the local police said.

The man, who has been detained, "had a dispute" with the woman and killed her "with a machete" before injuring a second woman and a man, according to a police statement that offered no explanation on the cause of the attack.

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