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The suspect additionally sustained minor accidents, however it was unclear how. (Consultant picture/ Shutterstock)
A 33-year-old suspect named solely as Ibrahim A., a stateless man of Palestinian origin, has been detained over Wednesday’s stabbing spree on the route between the northern cities of Hamburg and Kiel
German prosecutors mentioned Thursday there was no indication of a terrorist motive in a knife assault on a practice that killed two youngsters and wounded a number of different passengers.
A 33-year-old suspect named solely as Ibrahim A., a stateless man of Palestinian origin, has been detained over Wednesday’s stabbing spree on the route between the northern cities of Hamburg and Kiel.
“There aren’t any indications of a terrorist background,” Peter Mueller-Rakow, a spokesman for the native prosecutor’s workplace, instructed AFP.
The investigation into the assault and the suspect’s historical past was ongoing, he added.
A 17-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man had been killed within the assault and 5 folks injured, Sabine Suetterlin-Waack, the inside minister for Schleswig-Holstein state, instructed journalists.
Authorities had beforehand given the woman’s age as 16 and mentioned seven folks had been injured.
Two of the wounded have life-threatening accidents and are nonetheless in hospital, Suetterlin-Waack mentioned.
The 2 youngsters who had been killed knew one another, she added.
The suspect additionally sustained minor accidents, however it was unclear how.
Investigators discovered blood in 4 carriages of the practice, Suetterlin-Waack mentioned.
Passengers helped overpower the suspect and restrained him till police detained him at a railway station within the city of Brokstedt.
“Because of the very dynamic course of the crime, loads remains to be unclear,” Suetterlin-Waack mentioned.
The suspect, of no fastened abode, had solely lately been launched from jail in reference to an assault case, mentioned police.
He arrived in Germany 2014 and had a number of earlier convictions, together with for violent crimes, Suetterlin-Waack mentioned.
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