A 28-year-old man from Afghanistan has been arrested following a knife attack in a park in the German city of Aschaffenburg on Wednesday in which two people were killed, including a toddler, police said.

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

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.