STORY: Three people were killed and four others seriously wounded in a stabbing attack at a festival on Friday (August 23) night in the western German city of Solingen, police said.
They said that a single, unidentified man attacked multiple people and that the perpetrator was still at large, adding that the attack occurred at a festival to honour the town’s 650th anniversary.
The state’s interior minister, Herbert Reul, also visited the scene, telling reporters it was a targeted attack on human life but declining to speculate on the motive.
Fatal stabbings and shootings in Germany are relatively uncommon. The German government has been aiming to toughen rules on knives that can be carried in public by reducing the length allowed.
