Swiss Probe Knife Attack Injuring 2 as Possible Terrorism

A police car in the area where a stabbing occurred in the department store, in Lugano, Switzerland, on Nov. 24, 2020. Ti-Press/Keystone via AP

GENEVA—Swiss authorities are investigating as a possible terrorist attack the stabbing of two women in a department store in the southern city of Lugano, for which a suspect has been arrested. Police said the women’s injuries were not life-threatening.

Swiss federal police said on their Twitter feed that an attack “presumably of terrorist motivation” took place in the Italian-speaking city of Lugano on Tuesday afternoon, and federal prosecutors were investigating.