Three people severely injured after knife attack on German train, Red Cross says – National

A knife assault on a high-speed practice in Germany left three folks severely injured, the Bavarian Pink Cross stated Saturday.

One man has been arrested in reference to the morning assault on the practice station in Seubersdorf, the place the practice is at the moment stopped, police stated. Police stated a number of folks have been injured however have been unable to offer a selected quantity.

The practice in query, certainly one of Germany’s high-speed ICE trains, was touring between the Bavarian cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg on the time of the assault.

A spokesperson for the Bavarian Pink Cross, which has 110 responders on the scene, stated the group processed three “severely injured” individuals who have since been taken to an area clinic.

Between 200 and 300 folks have been faraway from the practice and are actually being taken care of at a close-by location, the Pink Cross spokesperson stated.

Native police instructed The Related Press that they obtained a name concerning the assault round 9 a.m. native time.

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Inside Minister Horst Seehofer stated the background behind the “horrible” assault was “nonetheless unclear” and is “now being clarified.” He stated folks in Seubersdorf, a municipality situated about 473 kilometers (294 miles) south of Berlin, confronted no “acute hazard.”

“I hope that these injured and those that witnessed this can get well shortly and fully,” Seehofer stated.

Bavarian state police have been on the scene in Seubersdorf, native police confirmed.

A spokesperson for the German railway community confirmed that the station in Seubersdorf was closed and that practice journey between Regensburg and Nuremberg was suspended. Lengthy-distance practice service has since been rerouted by way of the close by metropolis of Ingolstadt.