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The attack happened at 2:20 p.m. local time as the train was traveling between the towns of Buchs and Sennwald, located in northeast Switzerland. According to Radio FM1, the perpetrator spilled the flammable liquid on a female passenger and then set it on fire.
"Apart from a large presence of St. Gallen canton police, fire brigades, three helicopters and two emergency doctors," have been dispatched to the site of the attack, police said.
Authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the case and are looking into possible motives for the attack.
"We do not know where the man entered the train and whether he knew some of the passengers," Krรผsi said. Law enforcers were not able to talk to the train driver in the immediate aftermath of the assault since the person "was in shock and could not provide any details."
"A crime of passion" is one of the possibilities the Swiss police is currently investigating, Reuters reports. The outlet adds that, according to the police spokesperson, "a terrorism background still seems very, very far-fetched."
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Comment: If what the officers say is true, that Simmons was the attacker, it isn't evident on the available short video clip. Instead we see Simmons being unnecessarily brutalized. Either the officers are misrepresenting the incident, or this is a handy editing of a seven-minute scuffle to give a biassed impression to incite social media...which it did. We need to question what we see; it isn't always the whole story. Regardless, there is still no excuse for the subsequent relentless pounding displayed by the captors of this already subdued and passive suspect.