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Last December, a 14-year-old girl had died after being attacked by a man wielding a knife in southern Germany. The public prosecutor’s office has now filed charges against the suspect, a 27-year-old asylum seeker from Eritrea.

Almost three months after the knife attack on two schoolgirls in the town of Illerkirchberg in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg, the public prosecutor’s office in the city of Ulm filed charges against the alleged perpetrator.

The 27-year-old is accused of committing murder and attempted murder resulting dangerous bodily harm. The suspect is alleged to have attacked the two girls because they coincidentally had crossed his path.

The younger of the two girls was taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries, while the older of the two succumbed to her injuries. Both the victims had German citizenship.

Police later arrested the suspect — a 27-year-old Eritrean asylum seeker, who was found with injuries on his body and a knife in his possession — inside a refugee shelter near the scene of the attack. The man was hospitalized and put under police custody.

Police also detained two other men in connection to this case. readmore