Officials and residents have attended a solemn Mass to honor a child and a man killed in a knife attack in Germany, an assault that amplified the debate about migration ahead of the Feb. 23 general election.

Dozens of people have laid flowers and candles in the park in Aschaffenburg, where a knife attack left two people dead: a 41-year-old man and a two-year-old boy of Moroccan origin. Camera: RONALD WITTEK.

The conservatives in Germany are proposing a crackdown on migration policies - including citizenship laws - after the fatal stabbing in Aschaffenburg. But many are accusing them of cooperating with the far-right AfD.

Germany’s opposition leader says his party will bring motions to toughen migration policy to parliament next week in one of its last sessions before the country’s election.

A rejected Afghan asylum-seeker killed two people and left several others injured in a stabbing in Aschaffenburg, Germany.

A two-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man were killed on Wednesday in a knife attack in Germany's Aschaffenburg. A 28-year-old man from Afghanistan has been arrested by the police.

The mayor of Aschaffenburg has warned of a "spiral of violence and hatred" following the deadly stabbing in the southern German city. At a wreath-laying ceremony on Thursday, Jürgen Herzing said there were "parallels" to December's car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg,

Police identified the suspect as an Afghan man. Politicians gearing up for an election responded with comments about migration and law and order.

Responding to the killing of a child, the poll-leading Christian Democrats are pushing to overhaul migration laws — possibly with votes from the Alternative for Germany.

With Germany reeling from another deadly knife attack by a migrant suspect, experts warned that the inability of asylum seekers to access mental health services has added to their existing vulnerabilities.

Four days after a knife attack that left a man and a 2-year-old boy dead, the German city of Aschaffenburg is holding a memorial service.