germany: Several wounded in knife attack on German train

Berlin, Nov 6, 2021 -A number of folks have been wounded on Saturday in a knife assault on a high-speed prepare in southern Germany, native police mentioned, including the alleged perpetrator had been arrested.

The motive for the assault on the passenger prepare, making its manner from the Bavarian metropolis of Regensburg to Hamburg, was not but clear.

“In line with preliminary data, a number of folks have been injured,” police in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz mentioned in a press release, saying there was “no extra hazard”.

The Bild newspaper mentioned a minimum of three folks had been damage, two of them significantly.

A police spokeswoman mentioned none of them had suffered life-threatening accidents.

Horrible’ assault

A person has been arrested, police mentioned, with out giving any extra particulars.

In line with Bild, the suspect is a 27-year-old man of “Arab origin” who could also be affected by psychiatric issues.

The ICE high-speed prepare was halted within the station of Seubersdorf within the south.

“This knife assault is horrible,” Inside Minister Horst Seehofer mentioned on Twitter.

“I want to thank everybody, particularly the police and the prepare workers, for his or her courageous motion, which prevented one thing even worse from taking place.

“The motive for the crime continues to be unclear and can now be decided.”

The assault passed off at a tense time in Germany, which faces terror threats from jihadists and right-wing extremist teams.

Islamist suspects have dedicated a number of violent assaults lately, the deadliest being a truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016 that killed 12 folks.

The Tunisian attacker, a failed asylum seeker, was a supporter of the Islamic State jihadist group.

Radical Islamists
Seehofer mentioned earlier this yr that German authorities had foiled 23 tried assaults since 2000.

“Germany and Western Europe are nonetheless within the sights of radical Islamists,” he warned on the time.

Since 2013, the variety of Islamists thought-about harmful in Germany has elevated fivefold to 615, in keeping with the inside ministry.

A number of assaults or tried assaults have been carried out by asylum seekers who arrived in Germany through the 2015 migration disaster.

Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the nation’s doorways to some 900,000 asylum seekers.

German officers imagine the attackers deliberate their acts alone, not like a number of the assaults in France in 2015 that have been ordered by the Islamic State jihadist group.