At least two people were killed and several were injured in a knife attack on a regional train in northern Germany on Wednesday, said police, reported news agency AFP. A spokesman for the federal police said that the stabbings occurred on a train traveling between the cities of Hamburg and Kiel. At the town of Brokstedt’s railway station, the suspect was apprehended.
#BREAKING Two dead, several wounded in knife attack on train in northern Germany: police pic.twitter.com/JXFhm6FfPK
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) January 25, 2023
The existence of a knife attack with casualties, according to a spokesperson for the federal police in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, was confirmed, but the spokesperson was unable to provide specific figures.
The Bild daily reported that a suspect was apprehended by police.
German railroad Deutsche Bahn posted on Twitter that police were conducting an investigation at the train station in Brokstedt and that some services between Hamburg and Kiel had been canceled.
Bild reported that while the train was traveling between the two cities, a passenger began slashing people with a knife.
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Sabine Suetterlin-Waack, the regional interior minister, stated that the attack left her “shocked” and that her “thoughts were with the families and loved ones of the victims.”
She went on to say that state and federal authorities were “working closely together” to ascertain the motive.
According to the national rail company of Germany, some trains on the line between Hamburg and Kiel had been canceled to make room for the investigation by the police.
There have been a number of deadly knife attacks in Germany in recent years, some carried out by extremists and others by people with serious mental health issues.
In a homophobic attack in the eastern city of Dresden, a Syrian jihadist was given a life sentence in May 2021 for stabbing a German man to death and severely wounding his partner.
A Syrian-born man was given a 14-year prison sentence in December by a German court for an Islamist knife attack on a train that left four people injured.
After stabbing three people to death in 2021 in the southern city of Wuerzburg, a Somali man was committed to a psychiatric hospital by a German court.