At least 12 injured in knife attack at Hamburg railway station
A knife attack at the main station in the German city of Hamburg left at least 12 people injured with some of them in a life-threatening condition, local emergency services said.
'According to initial information, a person injured several people with a knife at the main train station,' Hamburg Police said in a post on X. 'The suspect was apprehended by the responding forces.'
A spokesman for the Hamburg fire department told AFP that 12 people had been injured in the attack. Among them were 'six people with life-threatening injuries', the spokesman said.
Some of the victims were being treated in trains, according to the German daily Bild.
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