Two wounded in Austria train stabbing

Two people were seriously wounded in a stabbing attack on a train in western Austria on Tuesday, officials said.

A 19-year-old man suffered stomach and back wounds and a 17-year-old boy was injured on the throat in the attack, near the village of Sulz, close to the Swiss border.

The "apparently deranged" suspect, a 60-year-old German national, was arrested, Austria's APA news agency reported. He fought police officers trying to arrest him and was pepper-sprayed, it said.

Police spokeswoman Elisabeth Engelhardt said told the Associated Press the suspect was assumed to be mentally confused and that “at this point there is no knowledge” that the attack was a copycat of a knife and flammable liquid attack on a Swiss train Saturday that left the attacker and one other person dead.

Police were investigating the attacker’s motive in Saturday's incident and Switzerland’s 20 Minuten newspaper said it was not believed to be terrorism-related.

In neighboring Germany, police ruled out terrorism as a motive in a stabbing and shooting attack in the western city of Cologne on Monday that left one man injured.

"The reasons for the crime are wholly unclear at this time. There is currently no evidence of a terrorist motive, nor of (people) running amok. Investigations are ongoing," Cologne’s police force said in a statement, according to the news agency DPA.

Germany has unveiled plans to ramp up security after the country saw four attacks in the space of just one week in July, two of them claimed by the Islamic State.