Bus attack in Germany: 10 wounded in an assault on a kitchen knife in Lubeck

The incident began when the assailant set fire to the backpack, said prosecutor Ulla Hingst at a police station. press conference Friday night.

The driver told the investigators that he had stopped the bus and opened all doors.

He then returned to find out what was happening and was struck by the assailant, said Ms. Hingst

When the suspect left the bus, he stabbed people around him with a knife 5-inch kitchen. The attacker was restrained by the passengers outside the vehicle and then quickly stopped by the police nearby.

A witness told the local newspaper Lübecker Nachrichten : "The passengers jumped off the bus and shouted, it was terrible, then the wounded were taken away." had a kitchen knife. "

Another said," One of the victims had just offered his place to an elderly woman, while the offender was stabbing him in the chest. was a carnage. "

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