A Lufthansa flight from Chicago to Germany was forced to divert to Boston after an Indian passenger in his late twenties allegedly stabbed two teenage co-passengers with a metal fork and slapped a female flyer in a mid-air outburst.

According to US prosecutors, the man, identified as 28-year-old Praneeth Kumar Usiripalli, also made a gun gesture with his fingers, put it in his mouth and pretended to pull the trigger as the flight crew tried to restrain him.

Usiripalli has been charged with one count of assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to cause bodily harm, the US Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts said. The incident occurred on Saturday, and he was arrested after the plane made an emergency landing at Boston’s Logan International Airport.

The complaint stated that Usiripalli

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