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(09-16) 10:43 PDT PFORZHEIM, Germany (AP) --
A 24-year-old man burst into a mail-order warehouse where he worked and swung a samurai sword at co-workers Tuesday, killing one woman and seriously wounding three others before slashing his arms, police said.
Police in Pforzheim, west of Stuttgart, said they arrested the attacker in a sixth-floor bathroom where he was found feigning death. He required stitches for his wounds, but was well enough to be questioned, police chief Karl-Heinz Arnitz said.
The motive for the 8:40 a.m. attack at the Bader company was not immediately clear, Arnitz said.
Police said the doorman saw the attacker enter the building carrying a slightly bowed black sheath, which held the 30-inch blade. He then got on an elevator and headed for the sixth floor. Earlier reports had said the sword had hung on the wall as a decoration.
"He entered the marketing department and swung the sword around him," Arnitz said.
A 27-year-old woman from Lithuania died on the spot after the attacker hit her in the forehead with the sword, he said.
The other female employees, ages 20, 34 and 57, were injured in the shoulders and arms. Two were in critical condition, including one who nearly had her arm severed above the elbow.
The man, who had worked in another division of the company's marketing department for two years, had lost his driver's license the night before after failing a drunken-driving test at a police checkpoint, authorities said. They were investigating whether that might have triggered his rampage.
(09-16) 10:43 PDT PFORZHEIM, Germany (AP) --
A 24-year-old man burst into a mail-order warehouse where he worked and swung a samurai sword at co-workers Tuesday, killing one woman and seriously wounding three others before slashing his arms, police said.
Police in Pforzheim, west of Stuttgart, said they arrested the attacker in a sixth-floor bathroom where he was found feigning death. He required stitches for his wounds, but was well enough to be questioned, police chief Karl-Heinz Arnitz said.
The motive for the 8:40 a.m. attack at the Bader company was not immediately clear, Arnitz said.
Police said the doorman saw the attacker enter the building carrying a slightly bowed black sheath, which held the 30-inch blade. He then got on an elevator and headed for the sixth floor. Earlier reports had said the sword had hung on the wall as a decoration.
"He entered the marketing department and swung the sword around him," Arnitz said.
A 27-year-old woman from Lithuania died on the spot after the attacker hit her in the forehead with the sword, he said.
The other female employees, ages 20, 34 and 57, were injured in the shoulders and arms. Two were in critical condition, including one who nearly had her arm severed above the elbow.
The man, who had worked in another division of the company's marketing department for two years, had lost his driver's license the night before after failing a drunken-driving test at a police checkpoint, authorities said. They were investigating whether that might have triggered his rampage.
