Germany police on Friday mentioned that they had arrested a girl after at the least 12 folks have been injured in a knife assault on the most important station within the northern metropolis of Hamburg.
Among the injured sustained life-threatening accidents within the stabbing, emergency companies mentioned, though the precise quantity remained unclear.
Round 6:30 pm (1600 GMT), Hamburg police mentioned on X they have been finishing up a significant operation on the most important prepare station in Germany’s second-largest metropolis.
“An individual injured a number of folks with a knife on the most important prepare station” and a suspect had been arrested, they mentioned.
The suspect, police subsequently mentioned, was a 39-year-old lady who was thought to have “acted alone”.
Investigations into the incident have been “operating at full velocity”, police mentioned, with out giving a sign of a doable motive.
A spokesman for the Hamburg hearth division informed AFP that 12 folks had been injured within the knife assault.
Amongst them have been “six folks with life-threatening accidents”, the spokesman mentioned. German media nonetheless reported the variety of folks with very extreme accidents was decrease.
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The assault happened round 6:00 pm in the midst of rush hour on the finish of the working week, in response to German media.
The suspect was thought to have carried out the assault “in opposition to passengers” on the station, a spokeswoman for the Hanover federal police directorate, which additionally covers Hamburg, informed AFP.
Pictures of the scene confirmed entry to the platforms at one finish of the station blocked off by police and folks being loaded into ready ambulances.
Among the victims within the assault have been being handled onboard ready trains within the station, Bild reported.
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn mentioned on X that 4 platforms on the station had been closed.
The incident would result in “delays and diversions in long-distance companies”, Deutsche Bahn mentioned in a put up on X.
Germany has been rocked in current months by a collection of violent assaults with usually jihadist or far-right extremist motivations which have put safety on the prime of the agenda.
The latest, on Sunday, noticed 4 folks have been injured in a stabbing at a bar within the metropolis of Bielefeld.
The investigation into the assault had been handed over to federal prosecutors after the Syrian suspect within the assault informed the cops who arrested him that he had jihadist beliefs.
The query of safety — and the immigrant origin of most of the attackers — was a significant matter throughout Germany’s current election marketing campaign.
The vote on the finish of February noticed the conservative CDU/CSU prime the polls and a report rating of over 20 % for the far-right, anti-immigration Different for Germany.
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