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A man attacks train passengers in Germany, 2 are killed and 7 are injured. Photo/Illustration/Sindonews
BERLIN – A man stabbed two people to death and injured seven others on a train in German north. The perpetrator was caught by the police.
The German Federal Police said the man used a knife to attack several passengers just before his train from the city of Kiel to Hamburg arrived at Brokstedt station.
Police spokesman Juergen Henningsen from the nearby city of Flensburg said the two people who were stabbed died after the attack. Three people were seriously injured and four others slightly injured. No details were provided about the identities of the victims.
“The attacker was also injured and taken to hospital,” police said as quoted by The Associated Press, Thursday (26/1/2023).
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Police did not provide any information about the suspect’s identity other than saying he was between 20 and 30 years old. They said a possible motive was under investigation.
Police said they were first alerted to the incident shortly before 3pm, when several passengers on the train made an emergency call to police. Police said the train was stopped and the attacker was detained outside the train.
The Minister of Interior for the State of Schleswig-Holstein, Sabine Suetterlin-Waack, voiced her shock at the attack.
“It’s terrible,” Suetterlin-Waack told German radio station NDR. “We are shocked and horrified that something like this has happened.”
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