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| Two people were killed and several others wounded in a knife attack on a regional train in northern Germany | ||||
| 2023-01-26 | ||||
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Two people were killed and several others maimed in a knife attack on a regional train in northern Germany Wednesday, police said, announcing that the alleged assailant had been captured. The stabbings occurred on a train traveling between the cities of Hamburg and Kiel, a front man for the federal police force said. The suspect was taken into custody at the railway station in the town of Brokstedt. It was not immediately clear how many people had been injured or how serious their condition was. Media reports cited around five maimed. Regional Interior Minister Sabine Suetterlin-Waack said she was "shocked" by the attack and that her "thoughts were with the families and loved ones of the victims." She added that federal and state police were "working closely together" to determine a motive. Germany’s national rail company said some trains on the line between Hamburg and Kiel had been canceled to allow police to conduct their investigation. Germany has been hit in recent years by several deadly knife attacks, some carried out by holy warriors and others by people suffering from serious psychological problems. A German court in December sentenced a Syrian-born man to 14 years in prison for an holy warrior knife attack on a train in which he injured four passengers. Last year a German court committed a Somali man to a psychiatric hospital after he stabbed three people to death in the southern city of Wuerzburg in 2021.
Three of those maimed were seriously hurt, four suffered minor injuries. WHAT ELSE DO WE KNOW SO FAR? Police said the attack took place as the train was approaching Brokstedt, a small community of around 2,000 people north of Hamburg. A suspect was arrested when the train reached Brokstedt station. Multiple travelers had called the emergency services from the train. Police later said that three passengers had eventually managed to restrain the suspected attacker on board, and that police arrived at the scene with him under their control. According to police, further details remained elusive around two hours after the attack. Neither suspected motives or reasons for the attacker's actions, nor the condition of those injured was entirely clear. Police said the suspect was not thought to have been on any krazed killer watch lists, based on preliminary checks. The dpa news agency also reported, but this time citing security sources speaking off the record, that the man was exhibiting signs of a pyschiatric illness.
The attacker is believed to have fled the train once it stopped at the station and continued to stab people on the platform before being tackled by police officers, reports Bild. The 33-year-old knifeman has not been identified but he is believed to be a Palestinian refugee from Gaza. He is also in hospital receiving treatment under police guard after he reportedly stabbed himself amid his attack on fellow passengers. The suspect reportedly had a temporary residence permit with him during the attack.
Two people are known dead and “several” people are injured after a stabbing attack on a regional commuter train travelling between Hamburg and Kiel, in Schleswig-Holstein. The knifeman is under police guard in hospital following the attack, having reportedly turned the knife on himself in the attack which took place around 3pm local time (0900 EST). Several ambulances and a medical helicopter attended the victims aboard the train once it stopped at Brokstedt, which has now been closed to allow the emergency services to work. According to the Bild, Europe’s biggest circulation newspaper, and their own sources the attacker was Syrian in origin but little more could be instantly said about him because paper documents he had on his person at the time of his arrest were so blood-stained they could not be read. Deutsche Welle reports “further details” about the knifeman are still not known two hours after the attack and no motives are known.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 ^^ Yep. First time I've ever laughed out loud imagining someone stepping in front of the Surfliner. |
| Posted by: Snose Prince of the Esquimeaux9958 2023-01-26 11:32 |
| #4 But to run a train, all you need is Paris Hilton. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-01-26 11:22 |
| #3 ^ Clever! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-01-26 11:18 |
| #2 a knife attack on a regional train And here I thought you needed heavy armor or explosives to hurt a train, live and learn. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2023-01-26 11:09 |
| #1 Die Räder go clickety-clack, A Mohammedan snickety-snack. So? Ho-hum... hold the phone! Though their motive's unknown, Crazy Germans fight back! Cries one racist attacker, "Ein kilo, mein Herr, halal Hack!" What? It could happen... |
| Posted by: Snose Prince of the Esquimeaux9958 2023-01-26 10:19 |