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 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.

The arrest of an Afghan asylum seeker suspected of killing two people in a knife attack targeting children in a German park has prompted calls for a much tougher migration stance and fired up campaigning for Germany's Feb.

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.

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.

A tragic Knife Aattack unfolded in Aschaffenburg, Germany, where a 28-year-old Afghan man stabbed a two-year-old child and a 41-year-old man to death in a public park. Two others were seriously wounded.

The chairman of the party and fraction of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz, gives a press conference in the German parliament in Berlin, in reaction to the knife attack on January 22 in Aschaffenburg.

A knife attack in Aschaffenburg, Germany, resulted in two deaths, including a child's, according to police. The suspect was captured at Schoental park where the incident occurred. There are no further suspects,

A knife attack in Aschaffenburg, Germany, left two dead and two injured. An Afghan suspect was arrested as authorities investigate the motive.- Watch Video on English Oneindia

A 28-year-old Afghan man was arrested for a knife attack in a park in Aschaffenburg, Germany, killing two, including a toddler. The incident raised security concerns across Germany. Police confirmed no additional suspects are involved.

The motives for the stabbing are still unclear, with police asking for witnesses to submit evidence. A stabbing in the southern German city of Aschaffenburg has left two people dead on Wednesday, local police said.