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Three people seriously injured in knife attack in ICE
November 6, 2021
Seubersdorf A man attacks other passengers in an ICE with a knife and triggers a large-scale deployment of police and auxiliary staff. The train is cleared in a train station in Eastern Bavaria.
Three people were seriously injured in a knife attack on the ICE Passau-Hamburg on Saturday.
The alleged perpetrator, a 27-year-old man, had been arrested, said the Bavarian police after a major operation at Seubersdorf train station in Upper Palatinate. It is apparently a lone perpetrator. "The background of the act is currently still completely unclear," said a police spokesman.
According to information from the German Press Agency, the suspect comes from Syria and last lived in Passau. The victims are three men aged 26, 39 and 60, according to security sources.
It was a lone perpetrator
The ICE 928 was halfway between Regensburg and Nuremberg on Saturday shortly after 9 a.m. when, among other things, an emergency call was received at the Upper Palatinate police headquarters: “Knife attack on passengers”, as police spokesman Florian Beck said. The ICE with 200 to 300 passengers on board stopped at the small Seubersdorf train station. The spokesman could not initially say whether the 27-year-old was overwhelmed by other passengers or by police officers.
"It was definitely a knife attack," he said. Because the situation was initially completely unclear, the police moved in with a large contingent and evacuated the train. A little later she was able to give the all-clear: there are no indications of further perpetrators, there is no danger for the population: "We are no longer looking for anyone."
Big effort for the assistants
The Bavarian Red Cross cared for the three seriously injured people on site and transported them to clinics. It was also a major operation for the auxiliaries and the fire brigade: around 200 to 300 passengers evacuated from the train are currently being looked after and provided with food and drinks in a hall near the Seubersdorf train station, said spokesman Sohrab Taheri-Sohi at noon. 110 Red Cross forces are on site, including crisis intervention teams to care for shocked people.
The Regenburg-Nuremberg railway had been closed since the morning. Other trains on the route were initially held back at suitable stations, said a spokesman for Deutsche Bahn at noon. In the meantime, long-distance traffic is being diverted via Ingolstadt. For passengers, that means 30 to 60 minutes longer travel times. When the route will be released again is still open.
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer expressed his horror and called for prudence. "The cruel knife attack in the ICE is terrible," Ministry spokesman Steve Alter quoted him in the short message service Twitter. He would like to thank the police forces and the train crew "for their brave efforts". The background to the cruel act is still unclear and needs to be clarified. "Only then is an assessment possible."
Police in Bavaria arrest man after incident, with reason for attack ‘still unclear’
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Several people ‘severely injured’ in knife attack on German train
Police in Bavaria arrest man after incident with reason for attack ‘still unclear’
A knife attack on a high-speed train in the German state of Bavaria has left three people “severely injured”, with the alleged perpetrator quickly arrested.
A spokesperson for the Bavarian Red Cross, which has 110 responders on the scene, said the organisation processed three “severely injured” people. In addition, 200 to 300 people were removed from the train and were being taken care of at a nearby location.
Horst Seehofer, Germany’s interior minister, said the background behind the “terrible” attack was “still unclear.” He said people in Seubersdorf, a municipality 473 km (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.
Police said multiple people were wounded but were unable to provide a specific number.
“According to preliminary information, several people were injured,” police in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz said in a statement, assuring that “there is now no more danger”.
The Bild newspaper said at least three people had been hurt, two of them seriously. A police spokesperson said that none of their lives were in danger.
Police said that a man had been arrested, but did not give any more details.
The ICE high-speed train was brought to a halt at Seubersdorf station, and a large police operation was deployed to the site.
In June, three people were killed and several others injured
in a knife attack committed in Würzburg, in southern Germany.
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