German train attack probably politically motivated: police

German police said on Tuesday the attack on a train on Monday night was probably politically motivated.

At a press conference held here, the chief of the police station of Bavaria state Lothar Koehl told Xinhua there is no evidence of the attacker targeting Asian passengers on the train.

Four Hong Kong residents were injured, two of them seriously, in a late night attack on a regional train near Wuerzburg in the southern German state of Bavaria. An asylum seeker from Afghanistan, aged 17, wielded axe and knife and wounded a total of five people. Koehl disclosed that the attacker injured a German woman on his way of escape.

The attacker tried to attack the police and was shot dead by the police. The police reported finding a "hand-painted Islamic State (IS) flag" in the asylum seeker's room.

The deputy consul general from China's Consulate General in Munich visited the injured people on Tuesday. He disclosed that he and his colleagues are keeping close contact with the police.

George Ertl, a board member of the university hospital of Wuerzburg who is treating the two critically injured residents, told Xinhua that the hospital is trying its best to save them.

The injured were unconscious when they were taken to the hospital and they remain in critical condition. Endit