The German police said Friday that they had arrested a woman after at least 12 people were injured in a knife attack at the main station in the city of northern Hamburg.
Around 6:30 PM (1600 GMT), the Hamburg Police said in X that they were carrying out an important operation at the main train station in the second largest city in Germany.
“A person injured several people with a knife at the main train station” and a suspect had been arrested, they said. Subsequently, the suspect, the police, was a 39 -year -old woman who thought “acted alone.”
Investigations on the incident were “running at full speed,” said the police, without giving an indication of a possible reason.
A spokesman for the Hamburg Fire Department said AFP that 12 people had been injured in the attack with a knife. Among them there were “six people with injuries that threaten life,” said the spokesman.
The German media reported that the number of people with very serious injuries was lower.
Security concerns
The attack took place around 6:00 pm in the mid -peak hour at the end of the work week, according to the German media.
It was thought that the suspect had carried out the attack “against the passengers” at the station, a spokeswoman for the Federal Police Directorate of Hanover, who also covers Hamburg, said. AFP.
The images of the scene showed access to the platforms at one end of the station blocked by the police and the people who are charged in ambulances.
Some of the victims in the attack were being treated aboard trains waiting at the station, Bild reported.
The German rail operator Deutsche Bahn said in X that four platforms at the station had been closed.
The incident would lead to “delays and deviations in long -distance services,” said Deutsche Bahn in an X.
Germany has been shaken in recent months by a series of violent attacks with extremist motivations that have put security at the top of the agenda.
The most recent, on Sunday, saw four people injured in a stabbing in a bar in the city of Bielefeld.
The investigation into the attack had been delivered to federal prosecutors after the Syrian suspect in the attack told police officers that they arrested him that he had extremist beliefs.
The question of security, and the immigrant origin of many of the attackers, was an important issue during the recent electoral campaign of Germany.
The vote at the end of February saw the conservative CDU/CSU overcome the surveys and a record score of more than 20 percent for the extreme right and anti-immigration alternative for Germany (AFD).
