A 29-year-old Afghan man in Germany attacked and severely injured a 58-year-old landscape gardener who was working in a park in Berlin, allegedly because he didn’t like the fact that as a woman she was working, police said Sunday.

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{snip} He also attacked the man who tried helping the woman. The victims’ identities were also not released.

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{snip} However, prosecutors and criminal police are also investigating him on suspicion that his attack may have been motivated by Islamist ideology.