BERLIN: German authorities cast doubt on Wednesday on whether a teenager who went on an axe rampage on a Bavarian train was really an Afghan refugee, saying he might have been from Pakistan. The Islamic State group released a video on Tuesday purportedly featuring the assailant announcing in Pashto. But In the video the youth uses phrases of a dialect of Pashto spoken in Pakistan — not Afghanistan — and experts have indicated that his accent is also clearly Pakistani, a report said.

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