Germany: 2 victims still in critical state after axe attack

BERLIN — Two Hong Kong tourists remained in a critical condition, the hospital treating them said Thursday, three days after they were attacked by an Afghan refugee wielding an axe and a knife on a German commuter train.

However, Wuerzburg’s university hospital said in a statement that their health status “is largely stable.”

The critical patients — identified by German news agency dpa as a 62-year-old man and his daughter’s 30-year-old boyfriend — were among five people wounded in the attack Monday night.

The 17-year-old attacker, Riaz Khan Ahmadzai, slashed two men and two women from Hong Kong before jumping off the train and wounding a woman who was walking her dog. He was later shot dead by police.