A Lufthansa airlines flight from Chicago to Germany was forced to divert to Boston after a passenger stabbed two teenagers with a metal fork, authorities said.

Praneeth Kumar Usiripalli, a 28-year-old Indian national, has been charged with one count of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to do bodily harm in connection with the mid-flight violence, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts said. He was aboard flight 431, traveling to Frankfurt at the time, when the incident occurred on Saturday.

Federal prosecutors said the first victim, a 17-year-old asleep in a middle seat, woke up to see Usiripalli standing over him with the fork from the recent meal service. He allegedly lunged at the teen, “striking him in the left clavicle area with a metal fork.”

Usiripalli then att

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