Knife attack: 2 wounded, suspect killed in German town

Berlin: A knife-wielding man wounded two people in a southern German town on Thursday before being fatally shot by police who said they were investigating a possible "terrorist context".

The 30-year-old man attacked several passers-by "with at least one knife", near the train station in Ansbach, a Bavarian town close to Nuremberg, according to local police.

Two people were injured but their lives were not in danger, the statement said.

When security forces intervened, the assailant "attacked the police" who opened fire and fatally wounded him, the statement added.