Lübeck, 8 stabbed in a bus. Two are serious. "Terrorist motive is not excluded"

LUBECCA (Germany) – At least eight people were injured, two seriously, after being stabbed aboard a bus in Lübeck, in northeastern Germany. A large police operation is currently underway. The attack took place in the district of Kuecknitz, at the beginning there was talk of 14 or 12 wounded. Until now, the police have not provided any clarifications on the severity of reported injuries.

According to the local newspaper Luebecker Nachrichten, the attacker has already been arrested. The newspaper also talks about a "smoking" backpack belonging to the man that would have been secured by the agents. A spokesman for the police confirmed that "there is no dead man", contrary to what was originally distributed.

The area around one of the Kuecknitz bus stops was circumscribed by security and armored forces. , as the police communicated via Twitter. Still according to the local newspaper Lübeck, which quotes witnesses, the bus was headed to Travemuende, when a pbadenger dropped his backpack to extract a weapon – perhaps a punch – and then attack other people present. The driver immediately stopped the bus by immediately opening the doors, in order to make the other pbadengers flee. The same driver was allegedly attacked by the attacker. The bomber – a young man whose identity is still unknown and whose motive was not known at the time – would have used some kind of weapon for the attack.

"Many pbadengers jumped off the bus and shouted," said a witness interviewed by Luebecker Nachrichten. "It was terrible, and then the wounded were taken away." The prosecutor's spokeswoman, Ulla Hingst, told the German news agency DPA that other pbadengers would neutralize the man inside the bus. "Nothing can be ruled out, not even the terrorist motive," added the spokesperson

The man will be questioned today during the day.Lübeck is the largest city in the Land of Schleswig-Holstein after the capital Kiel.