Polish woman killed by Syrian refugee in Germany

A 21-year-old asylum-seeker from Syria attacked and killed a Pole he was reportedly in love with and injured five other people with a meat cleaver in the German town of Reutlingen on Sunday. The attacker and the victim were working at the same doner kebab bar.

Mohammad Alhelo, an eyewitness, 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 police is working on the assumption the attack was "a crime of passion." "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 women was pregnant. The attacker was known to the police and had previously been charged with causing bodily harm. He was arrested following the attack.