Suspect in Swiss knife attack had tried to travel to Syria

A police car in the area where a stabbing occurred (Ti-Press/Keystone via AP)

Police in Switzerland say a woman suspected of carrying out a knife attack that is being investigated as possible terrorism formed an online relationship with a jihadi in Syria and had attempted to travel there.

The 28-year-old woman, a Swiss citizen, was arrested after an attack in a department store in the southern city of Lugano that injured two other women. Police said the injuries were not life-threatening.