Sei morti e cinque feriti nell’incendio “intenzionale” di un autobus svizzero

I thought the end of covid was also the end of the expression “We live in interesting times…” but sadly, no.

>A man inside the bus “poured out petrol and set himself alight”, a witness claims in a video shared with Swiss newspaper Blick. This account was corroborated by other witnesses, according to the report.

Police have ruled out terrorism. Perp not identified as dead, injured, or unharmed (seems unlikely). Ethnicity not reported. Sounds like a murder-suicide at this point.

EDIT: oops, my bad, missed a key word *not*. Police have *not* ruled out terrorism, per the article. I’d point out that the modus operandi isn’t typical for terrorists not using bombs – they tend to not be suicide attacks. I’d expect a “pour petrol on a Jew and light him on fire” rather than lighting one’s self on fire. But, who knows. There have been cases of people burning themselves as a political protest, but I haven’t heard of anything where they burned other people along with themselves, and generally that kind of thing would be done in a public square or such.