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KNIFE ATTACK. Forensic police inspect on early Saturday, August 24, 2024, the area where at least three people were killed and several injured when a man attacked them with a knife on late Friday in Solingen, western Germany, according to German media, as the city celebrated its 650th anniversary. AFPGerman police on Saturday arrested the suspected killer behind a knife rampage that left three people dead at a street festival, an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
“The man we have been looking for all day has since a short time ago been in detention,” he said, adding that police found evidence to convict him. The claim has yet to be verified. German officials had earlier said that “a terrorist motive cannot be excluded” for the act. Witnesses had allegedly seen the teen discussing the attack just before it happened with a man who could be the killer, said Markus Caspers, prosecutor of Duesseldorf, just west of Solingen.“The victims were completely unknown with no known ties between them,” Caspers told a press conference.
Jihadists have carried out several attacks in Germany in recent years, the deadliest being a truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market in 2016 that killed 12. Witness Lars Breitzke told the Solinger Tageblatt newspaper he was a few metres away from the attack, not far from the stage, and “understood from the expression on the singer’s face that something was wrong”.
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