Messerstecher in Erfurt with a hostage on the run



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  Police warn against a knife attacker   Police warn against a knife attacker

Police are on the outskirts of Erfurt in search of & nbsp; An attacker. Photo: Karina Hessland-Wissel

Source: dpa-infocom GmbH

A police helicopter flying over the central station uses tracking dogs in the city center. Erfurt runs since the early hours of the morning a big hunt with the knife.

E rfurt (dpa) – The Erfurt police have been searching since Thursday morning for a 41 year old young man who kidnapped his ex-girlfriend from their apartment and stabbed uninvolved pbaders-by on the run.

24 years old was seriously injured and had to have surgery. The alleged kidnapper and his hostage from Lithuania were last seen in the district of Erfurt railway station

According to police, the 41-year-old man climbed onto the balcony of the city. woman's apartment around 4.30am from the city center. He had taken a knife, threatened the woman and dragged her out of the apartment. At the time of the crime, another man was in the apartment. The relationship with the woman was initially unclear.

The police warned against picking up pick-ups in the area of ​​the Hauptbahnhof, Güterbahnhof and Weimarische Straße, located on Bundesstraße 7, as the attacker could still be armed. "Do not take anyone, keep your distance, call 110!" The officials wrote on Twitter. A helicopter was surrounded by special forces of the state's Criminal Investigation Bureau as well as by stalking dogs.

The central station of Erfurt was closed for an hour barely, said a speaker of the German course in Berlin. The trains were held back or reversed prematurely. How many hits were affected, the spokesman could not say. Since 7:40, the station could be rebooted, she said.

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