German police hunt for assailant in festival stabbing that killed 3

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******* police hunt for assailant in festival stabbing that ******* 3

Police officers secure access to the ****** scene after the Solingen city festival on August 24, 2024 in Solingen, Germany. 

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Police hunted on Saturday for an unknown assailant hours after he ******* three people and wounded others in a stabbing ******* at a festival in the western ******* city of Solingen.

Eight were injured, five of them seriously, the police said in a statement early on Saturday. That was up from the four serious injuries the police reported earlier.

“Both victims and witnesses are currently being questioned. The police are currently searching for the perpetrator with a large team,” police said.

The incident occurred around 9:40 p.m. local time on Friday, when the man attacked multiple people with a ******, the police said.

The perpetrator aimed specifically for people’s throats, the police added. They could not provide further details or a motive.

“Our security authorities are doing everything they can to catch the perpetrator and investigate the background of the *******,” Germany’s interior minister, Nancy Faeser, said in a post on X.

The ******* occurred at the Fronhof, a market square in Solingen where live bands were playing. It was during a festival marking the 650th anniversary of the city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which borders the Netherlands.

The ******* musician who goes by the name Topic said he was playing on a nearby stage when the incident occurred. He was told about what happened but was asked to continue “to avoid causing a mass panic *******”, he posted on

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He was eventually told to stop, and “since the attacker was still on the run, we hid in a nearby store while police helicopters circled above us,” Topic wrote.

Authorities canceled the remainder of the weekend festival.

Fatal stabbings and shootings are relatively uncommon in Germany. The government said earlier this month it wanted to toughen rules on knives that can be carried in public by reducing the maximum length allowed.

In June, a 29-year-old 

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 after being stabbed in Mannheim during an ******* on a right-wing demonstration. A stabbing 

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 in 2021 injured several.

North Rhine-Westphalia’s interior minister, Herbert Reul, visited the scene early on Saturday. He told reporters it was a targeted ******* on human life but declined to speculate on the motive.

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