German police have shot and killed a man who tried to attack them with a knife.
The 37-year-old tried to attack officers outside a police station in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany, on Sunday night.
Officers have not confirmed whether extremism was a possible motive for the attack
Police spokesman Christopher Grauwinkel said the 37-year-old man, whose name was not given, first used an unidentified object to attack a police car.
He then approached officers with the item in his hand. As the man came towards the officers, they saw that he had a knife in his other hand and did not stop despite several orders to do so.
A 27-year-old police officer then fatally shot him.
Local media reported that the man shouted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great" in Arabic, as he moved towards police. German news agency Dpa said the attacker was a Turkish citizen.
It comes in the wake of two attacks in France.
On Sunday an unidentified 28-year-old man threatened people before police fired bullets into his legs in the French city of Metz.
He had been shouting 'Allahu Akbar' - Arabic for God is the Greatest - around a housing estate in the Borny district..
On Friday a suspected terrorist went on a rampage in Villejuif in the southern Paris suburbs on Friday afternoon.
Nathan Chiasson, 22, had also been shouting 'Allahu Akbar' when he went on the rampage, stabbing three people at random.
One, a 56-year-old man, died at the scene after trying to protect his wife, who suffered wounds to the neck.
She ended up in intensive care, along with a third victim who also suffered severe stab wounds.
After witnesses raised the alarm, Chiasson, wearing a fake explosive vest, ran towards a Carrefour supermarket where he was shot at least six times by police and died at the scene.
Chiasson had converted to Islam in 2017, but an Iman had last week refused him permission to marry a Muslim woman.
