Woman stabbed to death in Aargau village drama

A 26-year-old woman died after being stabbed during an argument with a man in the streets of Fislisbach near Baden in the canton of Aargau, police reported on Friday.

Published: 26 September 2014 10:00 CEST

Woman stabbed to death in Aargau village drama

The drama took place in the village of Fislisbach in the canton of Aargau. Photo: Google Maps

Cantonal police were called to the village centre on Thursday at around 9:30am after reports of a dispute between a man and a woman.

On arrival, officers found a seriously injured woman lying on the ground in front of a building.

She died shortly after the arrival of paramedics.

The man, 35, fled the scene and hid himself in the car park of a shopping centre 100 metres from the scene.

He was apprehended in the village half an hour later and taken to hospital for treatment of his own serious knife wound.

Both the man and the deceased woman are of Albanian origin.

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Two victims suffered serious wounds, police said. The attacker was also in hospital being treated for injuries that investigators said were self-inflicted.

The man was “believed to be of foreign origin” and was aged about 40, police said in a statement which added that he was thought to have acted alone.

All of the injured remained hospitalised late Wednesday.

Armed with “sharpened or pointed” metal weapons, the man first lashed out at a passer-by at the railway station in the town of 12,000 people in the Aargau canton, about 60 kilometres (38 miles) west of Zurich, police said.

He then wounded several people seemingly at random before entering a house, police added.

Among those attacked were two teachers from the Zofingen cantonal school, the institution’s director, Patrick Strossler, told 20minuten.ch news website.

The Aargauer Zeitung newspaper quoted one man as saying his pregnant wife had been among those attacked. She was cut in the face but her life was not threatened.

After two hours of negotiations with a specialised team, the man was arrested in the house, police said. The suspect had injured himself and was taken to hospital, said Bernhard Graser, a police spokesman.

Graser told the Zofinger Tagblatt newspaper that the attacker’s injuries were self-inflicted.

Police have called for witnesses to share video or photos that may be useful for their investigation.

Images shown by Aargauer Zeitung showed a large deployment of police and emergency vehicles. The security forces had assault rifles and bullet-proof vests.

A police helicopter landed on a nearby sports field, causing the local youth football team to cut short a training session, the newspaper said.