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Police are hunting for a man who attacked five people with a chainsaw in the Swiss town of Schaffhausen. The man launched his assault at an office shortly after 10:30 local time (08:30 GMT) on Monday. Emergency services were on the scene within minutes, but the attacker had already fled. Police, who said the incident was not terrorism related, have since released a picture of the man, but have not revealed his name or possible motive. They have warned that the alleged attacker, who is about 190cm (6.2ft) tall, with an unkempt appearance, is dangerous. Central parts of the town on the German border were sealed off in the immediate aftermath of the attack, with local shops shut and people warned to stay away from the area. Image captionSwiss police are searching for this man The armed man was reported to have entered office buildings in Schaffhausen on Monday morning. He then attacked a number of people working in the local branch of health insurance company CSS, according to lo...

A French soldier shot and wounded a man armed with a machete and carrying two bags on his back on Friday as he tried to enter the Paris Louvre museum in what the government said appeared to have been a terrorist attack. The man shouted Allahu Akbar (God is greatest) and rushed at police and soldiers before being shot near the museum's shopping mall, police said, adding a second person had also been detained after acting suspiciously. The attacker was alive but seriously wounded, the head of Paris police Michel Cadot told reporters at the scene, adding the bags he had been carrying contained no explosives. "The soldier fired five bullets," Cadot said, describing how the man hurried threateningly toward the soldiers at around 10 a.m. (0900 GMT). "It was an attack by a person ... who represented a direct threat and whose actions suggested a terrorist context." Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said during a visit to Bayeux in Normandy: "It appears to be an...