7 injured in axe attack at German station; 1 arrest
BERLIN — A man was arrested after injuring seven people with an axe at the main train station in Duesseldorf, Germany on Thursday in what appeared to be a random attack, police said.
Officers were alerted about an attack shortly before 9 p.m. (2000 GMT), prompting a large-scale police response.
“A person, probably armed with an axe, attacked people at random,” police said in a statement. Seven people were injured, three of them seriously. The statement said police are investigating whether the suspect attacked passengers on a commuter train as well.
The suspected attacker was arrested after jumping off an overpass near the train station, the statement said. The 36-year-old man, described as being from “the former Yugoslavia” and living in the nearby city of Wuppertal, suffered serious injuries and was being treated in a hospital.