Members of the emergency services work at the scene at Hamburg’s main train station where several people have been stabbed on May 23, 2025.
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A knife attack at the main station in the German city of Hamburg left at least 12 people injured with some of them in a life-threatening condition, local emergency services said.
“According to initial information, a person injured several people with a knife at the main train station,” Hamburg Police said in a post on X. “The suspect was apprehended by the responding forces.”
A spokesman for the Hamburg fire department told AFP that 12 people had been injured in the attack. Among them were “six people with life-threatening injuries”, the spokesman said.
Some of the victims were being treated in trains, according to the German daily Bild.
Published – May 23, 2025 11:20 pm IST
