Hand-painted Islamic State flag found in room of German train attacker

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"A hand-painted flag of the Islamic State group has been found among the belongings of the 17-year-old Afghan refugee who attacked train passengers with an axe and a knife", the interior minister of the southern state of Bavaria told German television on Tuesday.

The flag was found in the room of the man who seriously wounded four people and injured several others on a regional train in the city of Wuerzburg, the minister, Joachim Herrmann, said on ZDF public television. 

The teenager was shot dead by police as he tried to flee.