Eighteen injured in Hamburg knife attack as woman arrested

 Eighteen people were injured in a knife attack at the main railway station in the German city of Hamburg on Friday evening, police said.

Hamburg police said on Saturday that four of the victims who had sustained life-threatening injuries were in a stable condition.

Officers arrested a 39-year-old German woman at the scene of the attack, which took place at about 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT) on Friday.

Police said there was “very concrete evidence” of mental illness in the suspect, and no evidence the attack was politically motivated.

The woman remains in police custody and is scheduled to appear in court on Saturday.

The attack happened between platforms 13 and 14 – which are accessible via a busy main road – while a train was on one of the platforms.

The suspect began stabbing people waiting for the train, but was stopped by the “rapid intervention” of two people on the platform as well as emergency services, police said.

The victims range in age from 19 to 85. Seven people were slightly injured, seven seriously injured, and four critically injured, police said.

The critically injured – a 24-year-old female, 24-year-old male, 52-year-old female, and an 85-year-old female – were stable as of Saturday.

On Saturday police said there was still no evidence of a political motive for the attack.

“Rather, there is now very concrete evidence of a mental illness on the part of the suspect,” they said, adding that the woman did not appear to have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the attack was “shocking” and thanked the emergency services for “their rapid assistance”.

—BBC

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