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BERLIN - A knife-wielding man killed one person and injured three on Tuesday at a commuter railway station in southern Germany, but investigators found no evidence that the assailant had ties to known militant cells and said he would undergo psychological tests.Authorities said the suspect, a 27-year-old German, had yelled comments suggesting ties to Islamist factions, including &#8220;infidel, you must die,&#8221; during the attacks in the Bavarian town of Grafing, about 25 miles southeast of Munich.Lothar K&#246;hler, a spokesman for the Bavarian Office of Criminal Investigation, told reporters that there was no evidence linking the attacker to Islamist militant networks or suggesting that &#8220;he was radicalized or incited&#8221; by videos or other sources.The attacker has received psychiatric treatment in the past and told police he was under the influence of drugs at the time of the attack, investigators said. K&#246;hler added, however, that the motive for the attack remains unclear.Prosecutor Ken Heidenreich said that the suspect was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday and that a psychological examination would be carried out to establish whether he could be held criminally responsible. Authorities would then decide whether to issue an arrest warrant or temporarily hospitalize him.The victims were between ages 43 and 58. A 56-year-old man died from his injuries shortly after arriving at a hospital.Although the investigation appeared to veer away from terrorism, security agencies across Germany immediately took notice.Police in Germany have stepped up raids against suspected Islamist militants after terrorist attacks in Paris in November and bombings in Brussels in March - both linked to the Islamic State extremist group.&#8220;That it could happen here is absolutely stupefying,&#8221; Grafing Mayor Angelika Obermayr told the Associated Press.In February, a 15-year-old girl stabbed a police officer in the neck with a knife at a train station in the northern German city of Hanover. Germany&#8217;s federal prosecutor said the girl had been in contact with a Syrian-based Islamist militant group.In August, a suspected Islamist militant armed with a knife and gun was subdued by passengers, including three Americans, on a journey from Amsterdam to Paris.<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta>By The Washington Post</bylineMeta></div>

Knife attack at German train station leaves 1 dead, 3 wounded