Germany: Man stabs train passengers: at least three injured

Three folks had been injured in a knife assault on a regional practice. A plainclothes police officer was capable of overpower the attacker.

A person stabbed passengers with a knife on a regional practice close to Aachen on Friday morning and injured at the least three folks. The suspect was arrested, stated a spokesman for the federal police. The background to the crime and the id of the attacker had been initially unclear.

In keeping with preliminary investigations, the person within the Euregiobahn RE4 pulled out a knife round 7.40 a.m. shortly after leaving the Herzogenrath station and reduce fellow passengers. A federal police officer who occurred to be sitting on the practice and who was on his strategy to his workplace overpowered and arrested the person, the Cologne police stated. The three injured at the moment are being handled in hospitals. There isn’t a hazard to life.

In keeping with their very own statements, the police had been on the scene with robust forces and spoke to witnesses. The railway line close to Herzogenrath initially remained closed.