BERLIN: Two persons have been killed and a number of other people injured in a knife attack on Wednesday (Jan 25) on a regional coach travelling in between Kiel and Hamburg in northern Germany, authorities said.
The inside ministry of the point out of Schleswig-Holstein, on the Danish border, mentioned the suspect was arrested at a train halt in the village of Brokstedt.
Before, the Bild newspaper had reported five individuals were being injured in the assault. The quantity of wounded could not immediately be confirmed.
Law enforcement had been investigating at the coach station in Brokstedt, the German railway Deutsche Bahn said on Twitter, introducing some solutions between the two towns had been cancelled.
“Federal and state police are doing work intently alongside one another on investigating this case,” state inside minister Sabine Suettelin-Waack stated in a assertion.