Germany’s public prosecutor’s office has said there is no evidence of terrorist motivation in Wednesday’s multiple stabbing on a train in northern Germany that left two people dead, including a 16-year-old girl, and seven injured.
The incident took place on a train traveling from Kiel to Hamburg. The alleged assailant, currently in custody, has been identified as a 33-year-old man of Palestinian origin.
The Minister of the Interior in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Sabine Suetterlin-Waack, confirmed before a parliamentary session that the fatalities of the attack are a 16-year-old girl and a 19-year-old boy.
Investigators are now trying to determine the motives and circumstances of the attack. The alleged assailant had already been held in a Hamburg facility for another assault, according to police sources in the city of Itzehoe.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
