India, Oct. 28 -- A 28-year-old Indian national has been charged in the United States after he allegedly stabbed two teenage passengers with a metal fork and slapped another co-passenger on a flight from Chicago to Germany, US authorities said.

The incident took place on October 25 on a Lufthansa flight, which was diverted to Boston Logan International Airport following the disturbance, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts said in a press release on Monday.

According to charging documents, the Indian national, identified as Praneeth Kumar Usiripalli, stabbed a 17-year-old male passenger in the shoulder and another 17-year-old male passenger in the back of the head with a metal fork, causing a laceration.

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