A teenager died and several other people were injured in Villach, Austria, on Saturday after a man attacked them with a knife, officials said. A suspect has been detained in connection with the attack; it is not clear whether he knew the victims.

       The attack happened around 4 p.m. local time, killing a 14-year-old and injuring four other people, according to the mayor of Villach, a city in the south near the Italian and Slovenian borders. The police told The Associated Press that two people were seriously injured.

       The suspect is a 23-year-old Syrian man with legal residence in Austria, local police officials said in an interview with Austria’s public broadcaster ORF. It is not known if he lived in Villach. The motive is also unknown, but police are investigating the suspect’s background, said Rainer Dionisio, a spokesman for the police department in Carinthia, the province where Villach is located.

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