A knife attack at the main station in the German city of Hamburg left at least 12 people injured, with some of them in a life-threatening condition, local emergency services say.
“According to initial information, a person injured several people with a knife at the main train station,” Hamburg police says in a post on X. “The suspect was apprehended by the responding forces.”
A spokesman for the Hamburg fire department tells AFP that 12 people had been injured in the attack.
Among them were “six people with life-threatening injuries”, the spokesman says.
Some of the victims were being treated on trains, according to the German daily Bild.
Germany has been rocked by a series of violent attacks in recent months.
On Sunday, four people were injured in a stabbing at a bar in the city of Bielefeld.
The investigation into the attack had been handed over to federal prosecutors after the suspect in the attack told the police officers who arrested him that he had jihadist beliefs.
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