39-Year-Old Woman Arrested After Knife Attack In Germany’s Hamburg

Germany police on Friday mentioned that they had arrested a girl after a minimum of 12 individuals had been injured in a knife assault on the principal station within the northern metropolis of Hamburg.

Some of the injured sustained life-threatening accidents within the stabbing, emergency providers mentioned, though the precise quantity remained unclear.

Around 6:30 pm (1600 GMT), Hamburg police mentioned on X they had been finishing up a serious operation on the principal prepare station in Germany’s second-largest metropolis.

“An individual injured a number of individuals with a knife on the principal 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 had been “operating at full pace”, police mentioned, with out giving a sign of a doable motive.

A spokesman for the Hamburg hearth division informed AFP that 12 individuals had been injured within the knife assault.

Among them had been “six individuals with life-threatening accidents”, the spokesman mentioned. German media nonetheless reported the variety of individuals with very extreme accidents was decrease.

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The assault happened round 6:00 pm in the course of rush hour on the finish of the working week, based on 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.

Images 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.

Some of the victims within the assault had 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 providers”, Deutsche Bahn mentioned in a submit on X.

Germany has been rocked in current months by a sequence of violent assaults with usually jihadist or far-right extremist motivations which have put safety on the prime of the agenda.

The most up-to-date, on Sunday, noticed 4 individuals had 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 law enforcement officials who arrested him that he had jihadist beliefs.

The query of safety — and the immigrant origin of lots of the attackers — was a serious subject throughout Germany’s current election marketing campaign.

The vote on the finish of February noticed the conservative CDU/CSU prime the polls and a file rating of over 20 % for the far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany.

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