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Sam REEVES

Scholz Says Deadly Knife Attack Was 'Against Us All'

Friday's attack left three people dead and eight others injured (Credit: AFP)

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday called last week's deadly knife attack an act "terrorism against us all" and pledged swift action to tighten weapons controls.

The violence Friday at a street festival in western Germany's Solingen, which killed three people and wounded eight, was allegedly carried out by a 26-year-old Syrian man with links to the Islamic State (IS) group.

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