Afghan man admits to stabbing of 4 people in Vienna

BERLIN — An Afghan man admitted to stabbing and severely injuring a family of three and a 20-year-old compatriot in Vienna because “he was in a bad, aggressive mood and upset about his life’s situation,” Austrian police said Thursday.

Police said in a statement that the 23-year-old said he committed all four stabbings, and denied that any of his attacks were politically motivated.

The attacker was detained shortly after the stabbing of a 20-year-old man, also from Afghanistan, on Wednesday night, police spokesman Patrick Maierhofer told The Associated Press.

An hour earlier, he attacked all three members of a family, the 67-year-old father, the 56-year-old mother and their 17-year-old daughter, also in the city’s downtown area.