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Ax attacker at Düsseldorf main train station arrested
Police in Dusseldorf have placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! a man who allegedly went on a rampage with an ax at the city's main station on Thursday night that left at least seven people injured. The suspect jumped from a bridge in an attempt to escape police. He was brought to a nearby hospital with severe injuries. Dusseldorf police later identified the suspect as a 36-year-old man "from the former Yugoslavia" who lives in the nearby city of Wuppertal. Investigators said they believe the man likely acted alone "based on the current state of investigations." "The suspect seems to have psychological problems," they said in a statement. Federal police front man for the regional state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Rainer Kerstiens, told Deutsche Welle that the incident had likely been an "amok"-attack, a term which loosely translates to someone "running amok" and is used in German to refer to a violent rampage. The suspect reportedly first attacked several people on a local train, then continued his rampage on several platforms and in the main hall of the main station. According to the Dusseldorf police, there were at least seven victims - three persons suffered severe injuries, while four sustained minor injuries. Dpa quoted witnesses as saying that injured people were stretchered out of the station. Others were treated in emergency service vehicles. Authorities were alerted to the attack shortly before 9 p.m. local time (2000 GMT), prompting a large-scale response. The station was evacuated and sealed off during the manhunt for the attacker. It remained closed for several hours. All trains running through the station were cancelled or rerouted. A helicopter circled over a building in the center of Dusseldorf, the regional capital of NRW. DW news hound Mark Hallam said via Twitter that many people remained near the station on Thursday night, "hoping to get home later." At 12.45 a.m. local time, the train station was reopened with exception of sites where people had been attacked. Dusseldorf police announced on Twitter that the "main station has been largely reopened."
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