The suspected attacker was shot by police while trying to flee after stabbing a man to death with a kitchen knife at an underground station in western Berlin. Both the male attacker and victim were known to the police.

The suspect attacked the victim during an argument at the Sophie-Charlotte-Platz station in BerlinImage: Michael Kuenne/PRESSCOV via ZUMA Press/picture alliance

A man suspected of stabbing another man to death at a Berlin underground station has died after being shot by police, the public prosecutors’ office said on Sunday.

There is no evidence to suggest the attack had an Islamist terrorist motive, a joint statement from the police and the prosecutor’s office added.

Police said an altercation on Saturday between the men escalated when the alleged perpetrator, a 43-year-old Syrian man, pulled out a kitchen knife and allegedly stabbed his victim three times, a 29-year-old German man.

The injured man reportedly managed to leave the Sophie-Charlotte-Platz station in western Berlin on his own but collapsed on the platform. He died at the scene.  Dw

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