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Woman arrested after 12 injured in stabbing at Hamburg station

By AFP
May 24, 2025
Members of the emergency services work at Hamburg’s main train station where several people were stabbed on May 23, 2025. — AFP
Members of the emergency services work at Hamburg’s main train station where several people were stabbed on May 23, 2025. — AFP

BERLIN: Germany police on Friday said they had arrested a woman after at least 12 people were injured in a knife attack at the main station in the northern city of Hamburg.

Some of the injured sustained life-threatening injuries in the stabbing, emergency services said, although the exact number remained unclear. Around 6:30 pm (1600 GMT), Hamburg police said on X they were carrying out a major operation at the main train station in Germany´s second-largest city.

“A person injured several people with a knife at the main train station” and a suspect had been arrested, they said. The suspect, police subsequently said, was a 39-year-old woman who was thought to have “acted alone”. Investigations into the incident were “running at full speed”, police said, without giving an indication of a possible motive.