Police said the suspect lashed out at five men and one woman around Rosenheimer Platz in the east of the city, but missed two of his targets.

A police spokeswoman said the detained man strongly resembled descriptions given by witnesses at the scene.

The suspect is said to have started attacking passers-by shortly after 06:00 local time (04:00 GMT).

"We have arrested a person who very strongly resembles the description by witnesses, but we cannot confirm that he is the attacker," Munich police spokesman Marcus da Gloria Martins said.

Martins added that police had not been able to establish any motive for the attack. None of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries.

Witness accounts described the suspect as a man in his 40s, unshaven, with grey trousers and a green tracksuit top and carrying a backpack and sleeping mat.

Police said he fled the scene on a bicycle.
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New tests on Neruda's remains have now confirmed he did not die of cancer, but have yet to reveal the actual cause. Dr Aurelio Luna told a press conference the experts were "100% convinced" that the death certificate "does not reflect the reality of the death".

The poet was suffering from prostate cancer, but it was not life-threatening - leading the 16 international experts to conclude a third party could have possibly been involved.

They will now carry out tests on a toxin found in his remains, which were exhumed on a judge's orders in 2013. It could be up to a year before the results are known.

Neruda was a supporter and personal friend of Chile's deposed socialist President, Salvador Allende.

The poet died on 23 September 1973, 12 days after the military coup and three days after he had been offered asylum in Mexico. According to Mr Araya, the day he died he called to say he had been injected in the stomach while he was asleep, and to come to the hospital quickly. Neruda died that evening, and Mr Araya says he has no doubt what killed him. "Until the day I die I will not alter my story," Mr Araya told the BBC in 2013. "Neruda was murdered. They didn't want Neruda to leave the country so they killed him."

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On Friday, 56 people were killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack at a Shia Muslim mosque, claimed by the Islamic State group. The Sunni Muslim group did not provide evidence for its claim but it has attacked Shia mosques before.

Separately on Friday, 20 people were killed in an attack on a Sunni Muslim mosque in Ghor province. It is not clear who carried out that attack.

Afghanistan has seen a spate of suicide attacks and bombings in recent months. The country's army and police have suffered heavy casualties at the hands of the Taliban, a Sunni group who want to re-impose their strict version of Islamic law in the country.

The BBC's South Asia editor Ethirajan Anbarasan says attacks from the Taliban and other groups seem to have intensified since US President Donald Trump announced his new Afghan strategy.

After Mr Trump committed US troops to the country, the Taliban said they would turn Afghanistan into a "graveyard" for American soldiers.