A Swiss tourist has been left with a fractured skull after he and his girlfriend were attacked near the Taj Mahal during a holiday in India, police and media reports said on Thursday.
The Latvian teenager who injured seven people in an axe attack in Flums on Sunday night had already been psychologically assessed by the authorities after expressing violent fantasies, according to reports.
Updated: A teenager armed with an axe injured seven people in a rampage in Switzerland on Sunday evening before being shot and arrested, police said, describing the incident as unrelated to terrorism.
Swiss police on Tuesday announced the arrest of a Tunisian couple including the brother of the assailant who fatally stabbed two young women in the French city of Marseille this month.
The man who injured several people on Monday morning after storming a Schaffhausen office building with a chainsaw is still on the run, police have said.
The Swiss president Doris Leuthard has expressed her “heartfelt condolences” after the attack on a concert in the northern English city of Manchester that killed at least 22 and injured many more.
In an extraordinary twist to his tale, Pascal Jaussi, the founder and CEO of a Swiss space technology firm, is accused of staging the supposed attack that left him with serious burns last summer.
Attacks on police officers should be more severely punished, the Swiss police federation (VSPB) has said following an incident in Basel on Saturday night when five officers were set upon by a group of 200 drunken youths.
Local officials have searched a Liechtenstein home belonging to the attacker who started a fire on a Swiss train and stabbed passengers near Salez station on Saturday, police said on Monday.
Should there be tighter security on Swiss trains? That’s the question that is preoccupying the country after an assailant set fire to a train carriage and stabbed passengers at Salez on Saturday afternoon.
A man who witnessed the stabbing and fire attack on a passenger train in eastern Switzerland on Saturday has spoken of his experience, as police say the motive for the attack is still unclear.
A 34-year-old woman who was injured in an attack by a knifeman on a Swiss train has died in hospital, police say.
The attacker, a 27-year-old Swiss man, also died on Sunday, they said.
Every police officer in Switzerland should receive anti-terrorism training, Geneva city councillor Pierre Maudet has said in an interview following the attack in Nice last week.
A woman was trampled to death by cows near Laax in the Swiss canton of Graubünden after walking through a field containing grazing cows and their calves, cantonal police have reported.
A district court has convicted a 22-year-old of murder and attempted murder in the case of two brothers attacked outside a nightclub in Zurich in 2012.
<p><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;" lang="DE"><span style="font-size: small;">Switzerland's spell of sizzling weather seems to have left Alpine cattle a bit hot under their cowbell collars. For the second time in a couple of weeks, hikers in Canton Graubünden have been attacked by cows nursing newborn calves.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Because they were barking and disturbing the Sunday peace, Elisabeth F. (76) wanted to lock her son’s pet dogs away. Then the dogs attacked her.</span></p>
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