A man has been arrested following a knife attack in a park in the German city of Aschaffenburg on Wednesday in which two people were killed, police said.

Two people have been killed and two others were injured in a stabbing in Bavaria, German police said. Authorities said a suspect was detained after the knife attack, which occurred in a park in the southern German town of Aschaffenburg. Officers said they did not immediately know the motive for the attack, but stated that it was not terrorism.