Woman
arrested after six hurt in knife attack on bus in Germany
Bus was
heading to festival in Siegen near Cologne when incident took place on Friday
evening
Associated Press in Berlin
Sat 31 Aug 2024 09.46 BST
A 32-year-old woman has been arrested after six people were
hurt in a knife attack on a bus headed to a festival in western Germany.
Authorities said there was no evidence of a political or religious motive.
Three of those attacked are in life-threatening condition,
police said on Friday evening.
The knife attack took place in Siegen, east of Cologne. The
bus was on its way to a festival in the town and at least another 40 people
were on board when the attack took place at about 7.40pm.
Police and prosecutors said the six people wounded were aged
between 16 and 30 and all were from the region. By Saturday morning, three of
them had left the hospital after outpatient treatment.
Local authorities planned to go ahead with the festival.
The stabbing in Siegen happened a week after a knife attack
in Solingen, a city in the same state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in which a
suspected Islamic extremist from Syria who had avoided being deported is
accused of killing three people and wounding another eight.
The Solingen attack prompted the governing coalition to draw
up plans to tighten knife laws and make deportations easier.
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