Update:
Four are in critical condition
A clearer picture of today’s mass stabbing in Germany is developing, with Die Welt reporting the number of known injured has risen to four in critical condition. A further six are seriously injured and seven more suffering light wounds. 17 in all were injured
The arrested suspect is a 39-year-old woman but we have no more detail than that so far.
The attacks appear to have been at random among people crowded on the railway platform during the evening rush hour.
Original:
A mass stabbing was perpetrated at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof on Friday evening. A female suspect, as of yet unidentified, has been taken into custody, reports Germany’s Bild.
At least 12 people were injured. Three of these were said by paramedics to be in “mortal danger” and fighting for life. The attack, which took place on the platform between tracks 13 and 14 at the station was left slicked with blood.
Six victims are said to have sustained light injuries.
Broadcaster NDR say Hamburg police called the stabbing an “isolated incident” and declared a major incident. Local newspaper the Hamburger Abendblatt cited an eyewitness who told them paramedics were treating some injured on the train and platform and that a special major emergency ambulance bus had been deployed.
Hamburg police said in their interim statement: “a person allegedly injured several people with a knife at [the railway station]. The suspect was arrested by police”.
The attack is the second mass stabbing in Germany in a matter of days. As previously reported, a stabbing in the early hours of Sunday morning in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, allegedly by a Syrian migrant was days later classified as a possible terror attack after Islamist literature was found on the attacker and at his home. As well as using a knife, the man is alleged to have wielded a spear and a bottle of petrol.
