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| Munich attack: Police launch manhunt for knifeman after 'multiple stabbings' in Bavarian capital | Munich attack: Police launch manhunt for knifeman after 'multiple stabbings' in Bavarian capital |
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| Police have reportedly apprehended a suspect after a knife attacker wounded multiple people in Munich. | |
| Authorities launched a manhunt after five people were injured on Saturday morning in the Rosenheimer Platz area of the Bavarian capital. | |
| No one is believed to have sustained life-threatening injuries, according to authorities. | |
| Munich police urged residents to stay indoors while the attacker remained at large. | |
| The suspect has been described as an unshaven, "corpulent" man in his 40s, with medium blonde hair. | The suspect has been described as an unshaven, "corpulent" man in his 40s, with medium blonde hair. |
| He was reportedly wearing grey trousers, a green jacket and a backpack with a rolled up sleeping mat and fled the scene on a black bicycle. | He was reportedly wearing grey trousers, a green jacket and a backpack with a rolled up sleeping mat and fled the scene on a black bicycle. |
| Munich police said they had received conflicting reports of the direction in which the attacker fled. | |
| It was unclear whether the man arrested is the same man in the police descriptions. | |
| The police department said on Twitter that officers were looking for the man "with all available police forces" but that his motive remained unclear. | |
| More follows… | More follows… |