Pole axed by Syrian refugee in Germany
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A 21-year-old asylum-seeker from Syria attacked with a meat cleaver and killed on Sunday a Pole he was reportedly in love with and injured five other people in the German town of Reutlingen.
The attacker and the victim were working in the same doner kebab bar and the police is working on the assumption the attack was "a crime of passion."
"Given the current evidence, there is no indication that this was a terrorist attack," a police statement said.
Mohammad Alhelo told German newspaper, Stuttgarter-Zeitung that the attacker was arguing with the woman before he killed her on the street - he said he had fallen in love with the woman when he started working there.
"The attacker was completely out of his mind. He even ran after a police car with his machete," Bild newspaper quoted another witness as saying. The tabloid also said the killed women was pregnant.
The attacker was known to the police and had previously been charged with causing bodily harm. He was arrested following the Sunday attack.
