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Around 11:30am today, November 23, authorities confirmed the death of a young man after he stabbed himself repeatedly while shouting Allahu Akbar in the fountain in Plaza Roma in Zaragoza, reports the Heraldo de Aragon.
The individual was naked and armed with a knife when he entered the fountain in the square and started screaming while repeatedly stabbing himself.
The security forces of the National Police acted quickly and removed the individual from the water, however, ambulance crews tried to help the aforementioned and he did not survive.
The individual was only twenty years old and was very thin, according to witnesses. One of them has claimed that the man did not try to hurt or attack anyone but “was in his own world.”
The witness also confirmed that “he was very upset, screaming. He was carrying a small dagger.”