Woman arrested after 12 injured in German knife attack
A woman has been arrested after 12 people were injured in a knife attack in Hamburg on Friday.
According to the German city's fire brigade, three people sustained life-threatening injuries and three others were seriously hurt. Six suffered minor injuries.
Video footage posted on social media appeared to show a white woman, wearing a hoodie and tracksuit bottoms, being arrested and led away from the scene by police officers. German police said they were not seeking other suspects.
The attack happened during the evening rush hour on platform 13 at Hamburg Central train station. The motivation is currently unclear.
German media reported that bloodstains could be seen on the ground, and that some victims were being treated on trains.
Photographs from the scene showed one man being treated on the platform, while another showed a man being taken away on a stretcher.
Traffic at the station was suspended on Friday evening, with a cordon set up around the scene of the attack.
It comes after four people were injured in a stabbing at a bar in the city of Bielefeld on Sunday.
The investigation into that attack was handed to federal prosecutors after the suspect told police officers who arrested him that he had jihadist beliefs.
Germany suffered a number of knife and car-ramming terror attacks in the run-up to the federal elections in February.
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