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Eight injured in attack on bus in Germany Nine people injured in attack on bus in Germany
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Eight people have been injured in an attack on a bus in the northern German city of Lübeck, police have said, adding that a suspect had been arrested. Nine people have been injured after a man started wielding a knife on a bus in Lübeck, northern Germany.
Police spokesman said the incident took place on Friday in the city’s Kuecknitz district. Authorities were still trying to determine the circumstances of the attack, he added. The bus, which was carrying about 70 people, was passing through the city’s Kücknitz district on Friday afternoon when the suspect, 34, dropped his rucksack and started attacking passengers, six of whom sustained stab wounds, with a further three injured through punches or falls.
Local newspaper Lübecker Nachrichten reported, without giving a source, that a suspect had attacked passengers with a knife. Police were able to detain the suspect, believed to be a German citizen of Iranian origin who lived in Lübeck, after he was overpowered by passengers.
German news agency dpa quoted police as saying that three people received “medium serious” injuries in the incident, while five others received minor injuries. An eyewitness told the newspaper Neue Lübecker Nachrichten the bus driver immediately stopped the vehicle after the first attack and had the presence of mind to open the doors despite being targeted.
State police tweeted: “Nobody was killed. The perpetrator was overpowered and is now in police custody.” A police car that happened to be close by was able to get to the scene quickly, allowing officers to detain the suspect, according to local news reports.
A police car that happened to be close by was able to get to the scene quickly, allowing officers to detain the perpetrator, Lübecker Nachrichten reported. Police said in a tweet that there was no indication the perpetrator had been politically radicalised.
“One of the victims had just given up his place to an older woman, when the attacker stabbed him in the chest,” the paper quoted a witness as saying. Die Identität des Täters ist geklärt: Ein 34-jähriger deutscher Staatsangehöriger mit Wohnsitz in #Lübeck. Es liegen aktuell keine Hinweise auf eine politische Radikalisierung des Mannes + derzeit auch keinerlei Anzeichen auf einen terroristischen Hintergrund vor. #Kücknitz
More details soon … A spokesperson for the state prosecutor said: “Nothing can be excluded, including a terrorist background.”
According to the newspaper Bild, police found fire accelerant inside the suspect’s rucksack.
Eyewitnesses spoke of harrowing scenes on the bus. “One of the victims had just given up his place to an older woman when the attacker stabbed him in the chest,” Lübecker Nachrichten quoted one as saying.
Maikel Henkel said: “Suddenly there was smoke and screaming, and then the man came to the back of the bus wearing sunglasses and a winter jacket and started randomly attacking people with a knife.”
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