Police say 4 victims face life-threatening accidents, recommend suspect could have have suffered a ‘psychological emergency’.
Authorities in Germany have arrested a lady after a minimum of 17 folks have been injured in a knife assault on the major prepare station within the northern metropolis of Hamburg.
At the least 4 of the victims sustained life-threatening accidents in Friday night’s mass stabbing incident, which happened in the course of the town’s night rush hour, emergency companies mentioned.
The suspect, a 39-year-old German girl, was arrested on the scene by legislation enforcement, a Hamburg police spokesperson mentioned.
Officers “approached her, and the girl allowed herself to be arrested with out resistance”, spokesman Florian Abbenseth advised journalists in feedback carried by public broadcaster ARD.
“We have now no proof to date that the girl could have had a political motive,” Abbenseth mentioned.
“Fairly, now we have data, based mostly on which we now need to examine, whether or not she could have been experiencing a psychological emergency.”
The suspect was thought to have “acted alone”, Hamburg police mentioned in a publish on X.
4 of the victims have suffered life-threatening accidents, Hamburg’s hearth division spokesman mentioned, revising down an earlier determine.
The suspect was thought to have turned “in opposition to passengers” on the station, a spokeswoman for the Hanover federal police directorate, which additionally covers Hamburg, advised the AFP information company.
Ambulance and police outdoors the central station in Hamburg following Friday night’s knife assault (Daniel Bockwoldt/EPA)
Photographs 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.
4 platforms on the station have been closed whereas investigations have been ongoing, and railway operator Deutsche Bahn mentioned it was “deeply shocked” by the assault. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz additionally expressed his shock in a name with the mayor of Hamburg following the assault.
Germany has been rocked in current months by a sequence of violent assaults which have put safety on the high of the agenda.
The latest, on Sunday, noticed 4 folks injured in a stabbing at a bar within the metropolis of Bielefeld. The investigation into that assault had been handed over to federal prosecutors following the arrest of the suspect, who’s from Syria.
