Knifeman attacks imam at Swiss Islamic centre

A man wielding a knife attacked a Muslim prayer leader and wounded three others at an Islamic centre in Lausanne, Switzerland, police said yesterday.

Police arrested the man, who they said had stabbed the imam in the stomach during a religious ceremony.

"There (was) a person in the Islamic centre who injured the imam with a knife," a police spokesman said, declining to comment on the knifeman's identity. The imam's injuries were serious but not life-threatening, the spokesman said. He said the other three were lightly wounded.

The victims were taken to hospital along with the knifeman who was also hurt.

The motive was not immediately clear.