POLICE have shot dead a man who injured multiple people on a train in southern Germany with what media reports said was an axe.
The dpa news agency reported that Wuerzburg police said the man attacked passengers on a regional train in Bavaria with "blunt and slashing" weapons and several people possibly had life-threatening injuries.
They would not comment on the German media reports that the man had attacked passengers with an axe.
The Bavarian interior ministry confirmed that police had shot and killed the attacker.
Wuerzburg police said on their Facebook page that three of the victims suffered serious injuries and one was slightly injured.
Another 14 people were being treated for shock.
Police said there was not yet any information on the motive behind the attack, nor details on the identity of the attacker.
The train was on its way from the Bavarian town of Treuchtlingen to Wuerzburg, which is about 60 miles north-west of Nuremberg.
