A 4-year-old girl was attacked in a supermarket in southern Germany on Wednesday afternoon and taken to hospital withserious injuries.
The background to the crime remains unclear. A 34-year-old man is currently suspected of attacking the child witha knife and seriously injuring her, police announced on Wednesday.
The suspect was arrested without resistance. The discounter in Wangen im Allgäu in the state of Baden-Württemberg was open to customers again as usual on Thursday morning, a dpa photographer on site said.
There were no traces of the crime from the previous afternoon in the supermarket.
The police announced that they would provide further information on the case on Thursday morning.
According to the police, a witness in the supermarket noticed what had happened, took the knife from the attacker and informed the officers.
The child was taken to a hospital and operated on, police said.
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