Knife Attack in Germany Kills at Least 3 at Solingen Festival

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The police in Germany were conducting a large-scale manhunt on Saturday after a person armed with a ****** ******* at least three people at a festival in the western city of Solingen on Friday night. The attacker, who escaped, also wounded eight others, five of them severely.

Local news outlets reported that a lone attacker had turned on the crowds during a fair celebrating the 650th anniversary of the city’s founding, which attracted thousands.

“This evening, we are all in shock, horror and great sadness in Solingen,” Tim Kurzbach, the city’s mayor, said in a

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. “We all wanted to celebrate our city’s anniversary together and now we have to mourn the ***** and injured.”

The motive for the ******* was unclear on Saturday. The police said that the attacker appeared to have chosen his victims at random, and stabbed and slashed, trying to do as much harm as possible.

Officers were interviewing witnesses and victims who were able to talk for details that could help them catch the attacker, the police in Düsseldorf said in a

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on Saturday. They will hold a news conference in the afternoon.

The ******* took place around 9:40 p.m. Friday in a central square in Solingen, about 14 miles east of Düsseldorf, where the festival was underway, the police said.

The area quickly emptied of visitors as the police tried to catch the assailant and set up barriers, news outlets reported. Videos from the scene showed a strong police presence.

The city canceled the rest of the festival after the *******.

Nearly three months ago, a police officer was ******* in a ****** ******* in Mannheim, 130 miles south. In that *******, six people, including the officer, were stabbed at an anti-Islamist rally.

John Yoon contributed reporting.

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