A knife attack at the main station in the German city of Hamburg left at least 17 people injured with some of them in a life-threatening condition, local emergency services said.
“According to initial information, a person injured several people with a knife at the main train station,” Hamburg police said in a post on X. “The suspect was apprehended by the responding forces.”
A spokesman for the Hamburg fire department initially told AFP that 12 people had been injured in the attack. Among them were “six people with life-threatening injuries”, the spokesman said. The total has now risen to 17, with four still in critical condition.
Some of the victims were being treated in 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 that attack had been handed over to federal prosecutors after the suspect told the police officers who arrested him that he had jihadist beliefs.
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