Far-right AfD party candidate stabbed in Mannheim

Heinrich Koch reportedly stabbed in altercation over election posters days after police officer died in attack in same German city

A candidate for the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party has been stabbed in the south-west German city of Mannheim, less than a week after a police officer was killed and five others were injured in a knife attack in the city.

The attack, which took place on Tuesday evening but was only confirmed by police on Wednesday, left a man with non-life threatening injuries for which he is being treated in hospital.