Terrorist attack in Switzerland, stabbed by two

Swiss authorities are investigating a possible terrorist attack after two women were stabbed in a shop in the southern town of Lugano on Tuesday.

Cantonal police in Ticino said women's wounds were not life threatening and 28-year-old suspect living in the area was in custody.

“A store in Lugano was the scene of an alleged attack motivated by terrorism against some people,” said the Federal Prosecutor General's Office in a statement.

Police said the alleged assailant had stabbed two women, wounding one in the neck with a sharp weapon.

The incident took place in the multimedia section of a Manor store downtown.

Switzerland itself has not seen large-scale terrorist incidents that have occurred in neighbouring countries such as the attacks in Paris, Nice and Vienna.

However, two men were arrested in the town of Winterthur this month in connection with the deadly shooting in Vienna.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz condemned Tuesday's attack in Lugano and vowed to work with Switzerland in a “common response to Islamic terrorism in Europe”.