Three severely injured in knife attack on train in Germany, suspect arrested
- A 27-year-old Syrian man was arrested when the train stopped after the attack, Bavarian state police said
- Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said the background behind the attack was unclear
A knife attack on a high-speed train in Germany left three people severely wounded, the Bavarian Red Cross said Saturday. Police said a man has been arrested in connection with the morning attack.
The train, one of Germany’s high-speed ICE trains, was travelling between the Bavarian cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg at the time of the attack. A spokesman for the Bavarian Red Cross, which had 110 responders at the scene, said the organisation processed three “severely injured” people.
A 27-year-old Syrian man was arrested in Seubersdorf, where the train stopped after the attack, Bavarian state police said. The injured people came from the Regensburg and nearby Passau areas, state police said.
In addition, 200 to 300 other people from the train were taken off and brought to a nearby location, the Bavarian Red Cross spokesman said.
Local police said they received a call about the attack around 9am local time.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said the background behind the “terrible” attack was “still unclear.” He said people in Seubersdorf, a municipality 473km (294 miles) south of Berlin, faced no “acute danger.”
“I hope that those injured and those who witnessed this will recover quickly and completely,” Seehofer said.
A spokesman for the German railway network confirmed that the station in Seubersdorf was closed and that train travel between Regensburg and Nuremberg was suspended. Long-distance train service has since been diverted via the nearby city of Ingolstadt.
