Local officials have searched a Liechtenstein home belonging to the attacker who started a fire on a Swiss train and stabbed passengers at the weekend, police said Monday.
Police had already searched the residence of the 27-year-old Swiss national in eastern Switzerland on Saturday, hours after the deadly attack.
But on Monday Swiss police said he also had a home in the tiny principality of Liechtenstein, which he had reportedly sublet for the past three years.
The authorities are working to determine what led the man to carry out the grisly attack on Saturday, on a moving train in the eastern Swiss region of Saint Gallen.
"It is too early to say anything about (the motive)," Saint Gallen police spokesman Gian Andrea Rezzoli told AFP, reiterating that there was no indication it was a terrorist or politically-motivated attack.
He said Swiss police were preparing to study the material retrieved on Sunday in the Liechtenstein search at the man's home.
Both the attacker and a 34-year-old female victim died of their injuries on Sunday.
Five other people suffered both burn and stab wounds in the attack, which took place on the line between Buchs and Sennwald near Salez station.
A 17-year-old woman's life remained in the balance and a six-year-old girl was in serious but not critical condition, Rezzoli said.
A witness told the 20 Minutten daily that he had seen a young woman burning "like a torch", and said another woman suffered stab wounds to her stomach and the child had burn injuries to her face.
- 'Loner' -
Police have so far not named the perpetrator or any of the victims, but media identified the attacker as Simon S., citing neighbours describing him as tall, lanky and a "loner".
Several media published a slightly blurry picture allegedly of the attacker with his eyes blacked out, but showing a man with a thin face, blond hair and goatee and apparently wearing steel-rimmed glasses.
"He was a quiet, friendly guy, but I have a feeling he had problems with himself," The Blick daily quoted one acquaintance as saying.
"You could tell he had been teased his whole life," he added, saying the man "had no friends. He was often alone."
A neighbour meanwhile told 20 Minuten the man "lived in extreme isolation".
The attacker was reportedly the son of a teacher who had worked part-time at an car parts supplier and also attended a technical university in Buchs.
Blick also identified the woman who died as Janja S., and said she was a Croatian national and the divorced mother of two children, aged seven and 10.
Police say it remains unclear if the attacker knew any of the victims on the train or if he struck at random.
A friend and neighbour of the woman who died meanwhile said she did not think she knew her killer.
"I think Janja was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is so unfair," Jelena Karan, 23, told Blick.
Local officials have searched a Liechtenstein home belonging to the attacker who started a fire on a Swiss train and stabbed passengers at the weekend, police said Monday.
Police had already searched the residence of the 27-year-old Swiss national in eastern Switzerland on Saturday, hours after the deadly attack.
But on Monday Swiss police said he also had a home in the tiny principality of Liechtenstein, which he had reportedly sublet for the past three years.
The authorities are working to determine what led the man to carry out the grisly attack on Saturday, on a moving train in the eastern Swiss region of Saint Gallen.
“It is too early to say anything about (the motive),” Saint Gallen police spokesman Gian Andrea Rezzoli told AFP, reiterating that there was no indication it was a terrorist or politically-motivated attack.
He said Swiss police were preparing to study the material retrieved on Sunday in the Liechtenstein search at the man’s home.
Both the attacker and a 34-year-old female victim died of their injuries on Sunday.
Five other people suffered both burn and stab wounds in the attack, which took place on the line between Buchs and Sennwald near Salez station.
A 17-year-old woman’s life remained in the balance and a six-year-old girl was in serious but not critical condition, Rezzoli said.
A witness told the 20 Minutten daily that he had seen a young woman burning “like a torch”, and said another woman suffered stab wounds to her stomach and the child had burn injuries to her face.
– ‘Loner’ –
Police have so far not named the perpetrator or any of the victims, but media identified the attacker as Simon S., citing neighbours describing him as tall, lanky and a “loner”.
Several media published a slightly blurry picture allegedly of the attacker with his eyes blacked out, but showing a man with a thin face, blond hair and goatee and apparently wearing steel-rimmed glasses.
“He was a quiet, friendly guy, but I have a feeling he had problems with himself,” The Blick daily quoted one acquaintance as saying.
“You could tell he had been teased his whole life,” he added, saying the man “had no friends. He was often alone.”
A neighbour meanwhile told 20 Minuten the man “lived in extreme isolation”.
The attacker was reportedly the son of a teacher who had worked part-time at an car parts supplier and also attended a technical university in Buchs.
Blick also identified the woman who died as Janja S., and said she was a Croatian national and the divorced mother of two children, aged seven and 10.
Police say it remains unclear if the attacker knew any of the victims on the train or if he struck at random.
A friend and neighbour of the woman who died meanwhile said she did not think she knew her killer.
“I think Janja was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is so unfair,” Jelena Karan, 23, told Blick.
