A 28-year-old man from Afghanistan was arrested following a knife attack on Wednesday in a park in the German city of Aschaffenburg in which two people were killed, including a toddler, police and the state health minister said.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that authorities must clear up why the suspect, who was supposed to be leaving Germany, was still in the country

A 28-year-old Afghan man was arrested after a deadly knife attack in a German park, resulting in the deaths of a toddler and a passerby. The incident has heightened security concerns in Germany. The suspect was undergoing psychiatric treatment and had violent tendencies.