Seventeen injured in a knife attack as a woman arrested

Several people suffered life – threaten injuries in a knife attack at the main train station in the German city of Hamburg, the police said.

The City Fire Department said 17 People were injured in the attack, while the police said they didn’t yet have a valid figure for the number of victims.

Hamburg police said that officers arrested the 39-year German woman at the scene as they performed a major surgery.

The attack took place at the city central station at around 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT) on Friday.

The Hamburg Fire Department spokesman told AFP news agency 17 people were injured and that some injuries were dangerous for life.

In the post in KS, Hamburg police said that several people were injured that they sustained injuries to life.

When talking outside the station, the police said they believe that the suspect acted on its own and did not have a “political motif.”

Instead, they believe she might have been “in state distress,” said Florian Abbenseth, police spokesman, he told reporters.

The attack occurred between platforms 13 and 14 – which are available through the busy main road – while the train was on one of the platforms.

Some of the victims were treated in trains, according to reports.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said “shocked” attack and thanked the emergency services in the field for “their quick help.”

The German Railway Operator Deutsche Bahn said that the four platforms on the station were closed, and some services will experience delays and diversions.

Images from the scene show a series of emergency services and vehicles on the field and barriers that seem to hide injured by a public view.

One photo used by German media shows a man who took me away from the hospital on the stretcher.

It seems that he shows the suspects that he followed his hands behind his back from the platform of the police station who put it in a police vehicle.

The Hamburg central station is one of the busiest nodes of Germany, with more than 550,000 passengers per day to their website. It is often crowded during a friday hurry.

This is the last in a series of violent attacks in Germany in recent months.

In January two-year and 41-year-old man were killed in a sting in the park in AschaffenburgWith several others, it was injured.

The Spanish tourist was stabbed only a month later in Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial.

Last December, six people were killed and hundreds were injured after The car drove in a crowd in the Christmas market In the Eastern City of Magdeburg.

The suspects in these previous attacks were migrants, who led Germany to tighten checks of border control And they saw immigration to become a key choice of voters during the Federal Choices in the country in February.