Police cordon off the area around a supermarket in the northern German city of Hamburg, where a man killed one person and wounded several others in a knife attack, on July 28, 2017. (Paul Weidenbaum/DPA/AFP)
BERLIN — German police said one person has died after a man with a knife attacked several people at a supermarket in Hamburg.
The assailant entered the supermarket in the city’s Barmbek district on Friday afternoon and stabbed customers before fleeing, police said. Witnesses followed him and alerted police, who arrested him near the scene.
German daily Bild published a picture of the attacker in the back of a police car with a white, blood-soaked bag over his head, and reported that he cried “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) in the supermarket.
Police said several people suffered stab wounds and one of the victims was fatally wounded.
Screenshot from a report in Germany’s Bild showing the suspected attacker who killed at least one person in a stabbing attack in a Hamburg supermarket on July 28, 2017.
They said on Twitter that they don’t have information on the assailant’s motive or on the exact number of victims. They also had no immediate details about the attacker.
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“There is no valid information yet on the motive or the number of people injured” by the man, who “entered a supermarket and suddenly began attacking customers,” police said.
“It was definitely a sole attacker. The first reports about a possible motive of a robbery have not been confirmed,” Hamburg police said on Twitter.
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