The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the attack.
German police have detained a suspect in the Solingen knife attack that killed three people, an official has said.
The three people who died were two men aged 67 and 56 and a 56-year-old woman, authorities said. Police said the attacker appeared to have deliberately aimed for his victims’ throats. “We are seeing the first signs of a new wave of terrorist attacks,” said Peter Neumann, a professor of security studies at King’s College in London.
Churches in Solingen have opened their doors to offer a space for prayer and emergency pastoral care. Police cars sit at a cordon after several people were killed and injured in an attack at the Solingen’s 650th anniversary celebrations. The attack took place in the crowd in front of one stage. Hours after the attack, the stage lights were still on as police and forensic investigators looked for clues in the cordoned-off square.Solingen has about 160,000 residents and is located near the bigger cities of Cologne and Duesseldorf.
A decade after the Islamic State militant group declared its caliphate in large parts of Iraq and Syria, the extremists no longer control any land, have lost many prominent leaders and are mostly out of the world news headlines.
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