Officials and residents have attended a solemn Mass to honor a child and a man killed in a knife attack in Germany, an assault that amplified the debate about migration ahead of the Feb. 23 general election.

With their anti-migrant tirades, the establishment parties are pursuing two goals: two goals: dividing the working class and building a police state.

After the violent attack in Bavaria, the police are working to shed light on the incident. Shortly before midday, he attacked a group of kindergarten children with a knife in Schöntal Park in the middle of Aschaffenburg,

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

Germany’s opposition leader says his party will bring motions to toughen migration policy to parliament next week in one of its last sessions before the country’s election.

A two-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man were killed on Wednesday in a knife attack in Germany's Aschaffenburg. A 28-year-old man from Afghanistan has been arrested by the police.

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

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 city of Aschaffenburg is holding a memorial service on Sunday after a man wielding a knife killed two people and seriously injured three more. An Afghan asylum seeker who was due to be deported was arrested after the Wednesday attack,

A memorial service will be held in the German city of Aschaffenburg on Sunday, four days after a stabbing incident that left two people dead and three seriously injured. The ecumenical service in the Stiftskirche is scheduled to begin at 10:30 am (0930 GMT).

Tens of thousands of Germans have protested in Berlin and other cities against the rise of the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party ahead of the Feb. 23 election.