BERLIN (Reuters) -A local politician from the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was injured in a knife attack in Mannheim late on Tuesday, the German news agency dpa reported on Wednesday.
The incident comes just days after another stabbing attack at an anti-Islam demonstration in which a policeman was killed.
The knifeman was detained shortly after the incident at around 20:45 GMT on Tuesday, dpa said.
The local AfD branch said that the injured politician is in hospital and that the perpetrator might be a radical leftist activist, according to dpa.
Local police declined to comment and the local AfD office did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment.
(Reporting by Andrey SychevEditing by Miranda Murray and Madeline Chambers)
