2 killed, 5 injured in knife attack on German train

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2 killed, 5 injured in knife attack on German train
Police, Fire Department and Emergency forces on a train crossing near Brokstedt. Photo: Jonas Walzberg/dpa

 

Admin l Wednesday, January 25, 2023

 

BROKSTDT – A man attacked passengers with a knife shortly before 3 pm (1400 GMT), before the train arrived at Brokstedt station, police said earlier.

Two people were killed and five injured in a knife attack on a train from Kiel to Hamburg in northern Germany on Wednesday, Schleswig-Holstein’s Interior Minister Sabine Sütterlin-Waack told dpa.

Police officers arrested the suspected attacker shortly afterwards in Brokstedt. The motive was not clear.

The railway station has been condoned off by police.

Brokstedt is a small community about 60 kilometres north of Hamburg in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

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