A knife attack that killed two people in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg has left a local community in grief, with the city's mayor warning of a "spiral of violence and hatred." An Afghan suspect is in custody.

Germany’s opposition leader has vowed to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up deportations if he is elected as chancellor next month.

A rejected Afghan asylum-seeker killed two people and left several others injured in a stabbing in Aschaffenburg, Germany.

The deportation of the suspect in Wednesday's deadly stabbing in the southern German city of Aschaffenburg failed due to a missed deadline, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann has said. Hermann said Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) rejected the Afghan national's application for asylum in June 2023 and ordered him to be deported to Bulgaria under EU migration rules.

The mayor of Aschaffenburg has warned of a "spiral of violence and hatred" following the deadly stabbing in the southern German city. At a wreath-laying ceremony on Thursday, Jürgen Herzing said there were "parallels" to December's car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg,

The violent attack left two dead, including a 2 year-old boy, and three injured in the Bavarian city. The suspect is a former Afghan asylum seeker with a history of psychiatric problems and violence who said over a month ago that he would leave Germany voluntarily.

Police identified the suspect as an Afghan man. Politicians gearing up for an election responded with comments about migration and law and order.

Police detain a 28-year-old Afghan after the attack in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg.

Berlin blames Bavaria. Bavaria blames Berlin. With migrants suspected in several deadly attacks, German politicians are jostling for position with calls to reform migration ahead of February's federal election.

Two people, including a 2-year-old boy, have been killed and three others were injured in a stabbing attack in Bavaria.

A 28-year-old man from Afghanistan has been arrested following a knife attack in a park in the German city of Aschaffenburg on Wednesday in which two people were killed, including a toddler, police said.