A female jogger was killed by a naked man who was screaming and attacking people in a lakeside park in a normally tranquil Swiss village, police said on Wednesday.
The attack happened on Tuesday evening in Mannedorf on Lake Zurich, about 20km southeast of Zurich, cantonal police said.
A 19-year-old suspect has been arrested.
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“Shortly before 8pm, passersby reported a man in Alma Park who was running around naked, screaming and physically attacking other people,” police said.
“The emergency services who quickly arrived on site found a seriously injured woman lying on the ground,” they said.
“Despite immediate resuscitation, the woman died from her serious injuries,” they added.
Blick newspaper published a video of a shirtless man being marched away by two police officers, with his arms behind his back.
Police told Swiss Keystone-ATS news agency that the attacker lightly injured a second person, while it was still unknown whether the perpetrator used a weapon.
The identity of the woman killed is subject to an ongoing investigation, police said.
Officers are also investigating the background to the attack, and whether the perpetrator and the victim knew each other.
The small, grassy park dotted with trees was open to the public on Wednesday, with two police officers standing on the lakeside path near the scene of the attack.
Mannedorf Mayor Wolfgang Annighofer, visiting the scene, said that the crime rate in the village was very low and security would be increased around the park.
“It’s a normal park that gets a lot of use. Especially in the summer months, people enjoy life. One looks at the beautiful nature. Sometimes people celebrate a bit here,” he said. “People actually come to the park in the evening, enjoy themselves, have a picnic here, maybe go a few meters further to swim and come back here. So they enjoy and use the park extremely well.”
An upmarket, middle-class village with lakeside villas, Mannedorf has about 12,000 residents, the latest Swiss government statistics show.
After police questioning, the arrested suspect would be referred to the public prosecutor for serious violent crime, police said.
The Zurich Forensic Science Institute, the leading body for forensic expertise in Switzerland, collected evidence, police said, adding that Zurich University’s Institute of Forensic Medicine is also involved in the investigation.
Fire crews, an ambulance, an emergency doctor and the air rescue service were also called in, police said.
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